98% of Australia’s Japanese population were sent to internment camps during the second world war.
Kamala Harris speaking via a screen to demonstrators at the protest against racism and police brutality on Aug. 28, 2020, in Washington, D.C.
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Black and Asian American communities have been portrayed as in opposition to each other. Multiracial Kamala Harris, both Asian American and Black, represents the potential for coalition building.
German internees at the Holsworthy Internment Camp during the first world war.
State Library of New South Wales
4,500 people with German ancestry were interned in Australia when the first world war broke out. A new translation project sheds light on their experiences.
Deported and drowned: an Italian memorial in London to those who died on the Arandora Star in 1940.
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