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Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei
by David Mura  Publisher Comments Award-winning poet David Mura's critically acclaimed memoir Turning Japanese chronicles how a year in Japan transformed his sense of self and pulled into sharp focus his complicated inheritance. Mura is a sansei, a third-generation Japanese-American who...
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Masking Selves, Making Subjects
by Traise Yamamoto Publisher Comments This sophisticated and comprehensive study is the first to situate Japanese American women's writing within theoretical contexts that provide a means of articulating the complex relationships between language and the body, gender and agency, nationalism...
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Japanese American History: An A-to-Z Reference from 1868 to the Present
by Brian Niiya Publisher Comments This encyclopedic reference comprehensively and clearly documents the experiences of a group that has played and important and largely unrecognized role in American history. Coverage includes an introductory historical essay, a chronology of more than...
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Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II (Critical Issue)
by Roger Daniels Publisher Comments Part of Hill and Wang's Critical Issues Series and well established on college reading lists, PRISONERS WITHOUT TRIAL presents a concise introduction to a shameful chapter in American history: the incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during...
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Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear: A Japanese American Memoir (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas)
by Greg Robinson Synopsis Originally published in 1932, Kathleen Tamagawa's pioneering Asian American memoir is a sensitive and thoughtful look at the personal and social complexities of growing up racially mixed during the early twentieth century. Born in 1893 to an Irish...
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From Concentration Camp to Campus: Japanese American Students and World War II (Asian American Experience)
by Allan W Austin Publisher Comments Exploring racism and multiculturalism in WWII-era Japanese American student...
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Common Ground: The Japanese American National Museum and the Culture of Collaborations
by Akemi Kikumura Yano Publisher Comments Los Angeles's Japanese American National Museum, established in 1992, remains the only museum in the United States expressly dedicated to sharing the story of Americans of Japanese ancestry. The National Museum is a unique institution that operates in...
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Transforming the Past: Tradition and Kinship Among Japanese Americans
by Sylvia J Yanagisako Publisher Comments In studying first- and second-generation Japanese Americans in Seattle, the author illuminates a key area in the understanding of how immigrants consciously and unconsciously move from their culture or origin to the culture of America....
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Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps
by Mary Matsuda Gruenewald Publisher Comments When Mary Matsuda Gruenewald was seventeen years old, she and her family were evacuated from their home on Vashon Island, Washington, and sent to an internment camp for Japanese-Americans. Along with nearly 120,000 other people of Japanese ancestry...
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Nisei Memories: My Parents Talk about the War Years (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies)
by Kenneth Kaname Takemoto Book News Annotation This account of two second-generation Japanese Americans is based on Takemoto's interviews of his parents, one of whom served in the Army during World War II, despite having been classified as an enemy alien, and the other of whom was imprisoned in a...
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Concentration Camps: North American Japanese in the United States & Canada During World War II
by Roger Daniels Publisher Comments In the early months of 1942, the United States government assembled and shipped off to concentration camps 112,000 men, women, and children -- the entire Japanese-American population of the three Pacific Coast states of California, Oregon, and an...
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Japanese Education: Made in the U.S.A.
by Nicholas J Haiducek Publisher Comments The Japanese educational system has become an object of growing dissatisfaction among Japanese students and parents, and some Japanese educators are looking at the American system of higher education as a model of a viable alternative. According to...
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America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy
by Naoko Shibusawa Publisher Comments During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy in the East. Though we distinguished "good Germans" from the Nazis, we condemned all Japanese indiscriminately as fanatics and savages. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S...
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American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II
by Eric L Muller Publisher Comments From the author of "Free to Die for Their Country" comes the story of the internment of 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry in 1942, and the administrative tribunals that had been designed to pass judgment on those suspected of being disloyal....
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Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures
by Kyoko Mori Publisher Comments In this powerful, exquisitely crafted book, Kyoko Mori delves into her dual heritage with a rare honesty that is both graceful and stirring. From her unhappy childhood in Japan, weighted by a troubled family and a constricting culture, to the American...
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The Dream of Water
by Kyoko Mori Publisher Comments "POETIC . . . REMARKABLY HONEST . . . Mori describes her experiences with an admirable mixture of forthrightness and restraint."<BR>--The Wall Street Journal<BR>In an extraordinary memoir that is both a search for belonging and a search for...
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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 A Japanese American woman looks back on life at an internment camp during World War II and tells of how the fear, confusion, and ultimate dignity of the people there shaped her life....
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Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage
by Haru Mat Reischauer Review Samurai and Silkis beautifully written, with a sense of intimacy that only firsthand experience and family traditions could confer. It is also a work of broad historical value,since both grandfathers played a major role in reshaping Japan and laying the...
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Japanese Americans, from Relocation to Redress
by Roger Daniels Book News Annotation This revised and expanded edition (first in 1986) presents the most complete and current published account of the Japanese American experience from the evacuation order of WW II to the public policy debate over redress and reparations. A chronology...
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Exile Within: The Schooling of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945
by Thomas James Publisher Comments During World War II, 110,000 Japanese Americans--30,000 of them children--were torn from their homes and incarcerated in camps surrounded by barbed wire and military guards in what the ACLU hascalled "the greatest deprivation of civil rights by...
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