Legacies of the Land: Photographs by Joan Myers and Patrick Nagatani

“Legacies of the Land: Photographs by Joan Myers and Patrick Nagatani” explores what remains of sites of Japanese incarceration in the United States, four of which are in New Mexico. Fears about national security peaked after the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December 1941. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order to remove approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent from their homes on the West Coast to “relocation centers” further inland.