the iconic photograph by dorothea lang that we have come to call migrant mother that has come to symbolize the great depression. it's very likely, as i've done this just with you just now, that the images you've conjured up in your mind have been in black and white. very, very likely. so now i'd like you to do the same exercise, but think about the imprisonment of japanese-americans during world war ii. try to find in your mind an image that represents the imprisonment of japanese-americans during the war. so what are you picturing? does it look like this? a bunch of, um, young japanese-american girls in kimonos? dancing? this is a photograph taken by a government photographer at the granada relocation center in eastern colorado in august of 1943. so if this isn't what you had in mind, what's different about it? well, it's a photo, as i said, of young american citizens dancing, celebrating the spirit of their ancestors in a summertime buddhist ritual. does it surprise you that japanese-americans would have engaged in such open displays of japanese culture while detained in what was basical