Campu
5.0/5
Critic Rating
Densho’s new podcast, Campu, tells the story of Japanese American incarceration like you've never heard it before. Brother-sister duo Noah and Hana Maruyama weave together the voices of survivors to spin narratives out of the seemingly mundane things that gave shape to the incarceration experience: rocks, fences, food, paper. Follow along as they move far beyond the standard Japanese American incarceration 101 and into more intimate and lesser-known corners of this history.
Critic Reviews
Score: 5
Phoebe Lett • New York Times • Feb 25, 2021
"The duo (well equipped for the project as an American studies researcher and historian, and an audio producer-composer) use these collected items to weave together the voices of those who survived the camps. Each object — rocks, fences, cameras, even latrines — is an entry point for beautiful narration that connects the survivors’ moving testimonies to pasts long before 1942 and into the present day."
Score: 5
PR Staff • PodcastReview.org • Jan 13, 2021
"What’s impressive about Campu is how artfully it tells intimate stories like this one alongside the larger histories of this shameful period."
