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Matthew Briones, American history professor at the College at the University of Chicago reports on the life of Charles Kikuchi, a Japanese American who was sent to an internment camp alongside 100,000 other Japanese Americans following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. Mr. Kikuchi kept a journal throughout his life and recalls his time in the camp, his enlistment in the U.S Army and his later career as a social worker in New York City. Matthew Briones speaks with Cornel West, professor in the Center for African American Studies, Princeton University at Hue-Man Bookstore in New York City.