Mia Nakaji Monnier
Mia Nakaji Monnier's journalism and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, BuzzFeed and more. Before going freelance, she worked on staff at The Rafu Shimpo, a century-old Japanese American bilingual community newspaper based in L.A.'s Little Tokyo.
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Today, the Crenshaw district of South Los Angeles is known as a predominantly Black neighborhood, while Japanese Americans are most commonly associated with Little Tokyo, Sawtelle, Torrance and Gardena. But after World War II, Crenshaw had the largest concentration of Japanese Americans in the continental United States.
“In Plain Sight" conscripted 80 artists and organizations to make visible the vast and invisible network of detention centers by writing messages in the sky.
Two new exhibitions explore the connection between World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans and the United States government’s more recent immigration and travel policies.