"Citizen / Enemy" at the Tucson Desert Art Museum looks at the legacy of Japanese incarcerations during World War II.

Featured on the February 16th, 2023 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:

• Learn about a new exhibit at the Tucson Desert Art Museum called “Citizen / Enemy: Japanese Incarceration Camps”. Through photographs, it tells the story of what happened to as many as 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent, who were forced to leave their homes and spend the majority of WWII as prisoners. Mark talks with Brett Esaki, an assistant professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona, about this dark chapter in our country’s history.

VIEW LARGER A part of the “Citizen / Enemy: Japanese Incarceration Camps” exhibit now showing at the Tucson Desert Art Museum.

Photo by Russell Lee (1942)

VIEW LARGER This image is featured as a part of the exhibit “Citizen / Enemy: Japanese Incarceration Camps” at the Tucson Desert Art Museum.

Photo by Russell Lee (1942)

• The Japanese word for “dream” is “yume”. Find out how a dream came true for Patricia Deridder, a Tucson resident who opened the non-profit Yume Japanese Gardens for others to share.

Brightly-colored koi swim among aquatic plants at Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson.

Bob Lindberg, AZPM

After living in Europe and Asia, Patricia Deridder settled in the United States where she eventually opened Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson.

Steve Riggs, AZPM

• The 2021 documentary “Users” is receiving its Arizona premiere next week at the Fox Tucson Theatre, presented by Natalia Almada, the film’s director and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant” in 2012. Almada tells Mark about the way her film examines the tenuous connections that exist between humanity, technology and nature.