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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment by Jeanne W Houston Publisher Comments Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was sent to live at Manzanar internment camp. This is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market 
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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (Oregon Reads) by Lauren Kessler Publisher Comments Stubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a moving saga about the challenges of becoming an American.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Publisher Comments During World War II a community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese American internees. One of the first families to arrive was the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment Of... by United States Commis Publisher Comments Personal Justice Denied tells the extraordinary story of the incarceration of mainland Japanese Americans and Alaskan Aleuts during World War II. Although this wartime episode is now almost universally recognized as a catastrophe, for decades various... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Last Witnesses Reflect Wartime Intermen by Erica Harth Publisher Comments Sixty years after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and FDR's Executive Order 9066 making possible the incarceration of over 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent (two thirds of them American citizens) one question remains unresolved: "Could it happen... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Kiyo's Story: A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream by Kiyo Sato Publisher Comments <p class="MsoNormal">“Vividly honest, deeply moving.”—Bill Hosokawa, Out of the Frying Pan: Reflections of a Japanese American <p class="MsoNormal">“It is a magnificent memoir, fully worthy of being compared to... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family by Lauren Kessler Publisher Comments Masuo Yasui saw America as a land of limitless opportunity. Like countless other immigrants, he put down roots, worked hard, and achieved success. In Oregon's Hood River Valley, Yasui achieved as a businessman, an orchardist, and leader of the Japanese... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies) by Gary Okihiro Book News Annotation Recounts the little known story of over 5,500 young Japanese Americans who left the concentration camps where their families were confined to attend college outside the west coast exclusion zone. Focuses on the help they received from other Americans,... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration (06 Edition) by Ishizuka Synopsis Combining heartfelt stories with first-rate scholarship, Lost and Found reveals the complexities of a people reclaiming their own history. For decades, victims of the United States' mass incarceration of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Making Home from War: Stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement by Brian Dempster Book News Annotation After the attack on Pearl Harbor, 112,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most US citizens, were taken from their homes and imprisoned in concentration camps. This collection of 12 memoirs by Japanese internment camp survivors focuses on those who... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality and Identity by David Mura Publisher Comments In Turning Japanese, poet David Mura chronicled a year in Japan in which his sense of identity as a Japanese American was transformed. In Where the Body Meets Memory, Mura focuses on his experience growing up Japanese American in a country which interned... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Turning Japanese Memoirs of a Sansei by David Mura Publisher Comments A journal of discovery by a poet and third-generation Japanese-American who explores the sense of difference that haunts him both at home and in Japan.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 by Masayo Duus Publisher Comments In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family by Yoshiko Uchida Publisher Comments Tells the story of one Japanese-American family's experiences in an internment camp in Utah during World War... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Talking to High Monks in the Snow: Asian-American Odyssey, an by Lydia Yuri Minatoya Publisher Comments Chapter 1 Albany, New York My Mother's Music "I believe that the Japanese word for wife" "literally means honorable person remaining within," says my mother. "During the nineteen twenties, when I was a child in Japan, my seventeen-year-old cousin... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Our House Divided by Tomi Knaefler Publisher Comments Our House Divided recounts the stories of seven Hawai'i families who were divided by Pearl Harbor and the resulting war. The American children of one of these families acquiesced silently, sadly, to accompany their father, who asked to be repatriated to... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 by Leslie T. Hatamiya Publisher Comments In December 1982, a congressionally created commission concluded that the evacuation and incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II were the result of racism, war hysteria, and failed political leadership. Six months... (read more) Your price: $25.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Soldiers of Conscience: Japanese American Military Resisters in World War II by Shirley Castelnuovo Publisher Comments After Japans attack on Pearl Harbor, persons of Japanese ancestry were the victims of frequent racist acts and culturally biased governmental loyalty investigations and, finally, of exclusion and imprisonment. The majority of Japanese Americans complied... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Personal Justice Denied by United States. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians Publisher Comments “Personal Justice Denied is one of the seminal documents illuminating recent Asian American history. Its findings made possible the long-delayed monetary redress for the unjustified wartime incarceration of most mainland Japanese Americans in... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $26.62 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community by David A Neiwert Publisher Comments Strawberry Days tells the vivid and moving tale of the creation and destruction of a Japanese immigrant community. Before World War II, Bellevue, the now-booming "edge city" on the outskirts of Seattle, was a prosperous farm town renowned for its... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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