Book Event: Enmity and Empathy

About This Event

Celebrate the publication of Enmity and Empathy: Japanese Americans in Minnesota During World War II, new from Minnesota Historical Society Press. The event includes a panel discussion between the author Ka Wong and Ms. Sally Sudo and Dr. Karen Tanaka Lucas, as well as an audience Q&A. Copies will be available for purchase and signing on site.

Drawing on personal interviews and archival sources, Dr. Wong explores the courageous struggles of trailblazers who relocated to the North Star State. Enmity and Empathy illustrates the multiple ways in which Japanese American people transformed both wartime Minnesota and their own lives, including narratives of college students pursuing higher education, young men and women training at the Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS), and the US Cadet Nurse Corps serving in hospitals.

Join us for this remarkable opportunity to hear about the men and women who trained at the MISLS at Fort Snelling in the very building where they were housed.

Ka Wong is professor of Asian Studies at St. Olaf College. He is the producer, director, and writer of the film Beyond the Barbed Wire: Japanese Americans in Minnesota. Dr. Wong lives near Northfield, Minnesota. 

The event is supported by the Alonzo Pickle Endowment.