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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 Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured...
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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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The Colonel and the Pacifist: Karl R. Bendetsen, Perry H. Saito, and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
by Klancy Clark Nevers Synopsis EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066. In February 1942, ten weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt put his signature to a piece of paper that allowed the forced removal of Americans of Japanese ancestry from their West Coast...
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Songs My Mother Taught Me: Stories, Plays, and Memoir
by Wakako Yamauchi Publisher Comments """Songs My Mother Taught Meis the first collection of literature by this mature and accomplished writer. In her eloquent prose, Yamauchi, a Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) illuminates the neglected social and emotional history of two...
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Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
by Eric L Muller Publisher Comments In the spring of 1942, the federal government forced West Coast Japanese Americans into detainment camps on suspicion of disloyalty. Two years later, after stripping them of their livelihoods, liberty, and dignity, the government demanded even more by...
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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...
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Politics of Prejudice: Anti-Japanese Movement in California
by Roger Daniels Synopsis This classic study offers a history of anti-Japanese prejudice in California, extending from the late nineteenth century to 1924, when an immigration act excluded Japanese from entering the United States. "The Politics of Prejudice" details the political...
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Righting a Wrong Japanese Americans
by Leslie T Hatamiya Publisher Comments This book is a case study of the political, institutional, and external factors that led to the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988....
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Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration (Asian American Experience)
by Karen L Ishizuka Publisher Comments 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...
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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....
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Imaging Japanese America : Visual Construction of Citizenship, Nation, and the Body (03 Edition)
by Elena Tajima Creef Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction. "Imaging Japanese America examines myriad genres of visual and linguistic representation in order to understand the historical and contemporary 'imaging' of Japanese Americans. It is...
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Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama (Critical American Studies)
by Diane C Fujino Publisher Comments On February 12, 1965, in the Audubon Ballroom, Yuri Kochiyama cradled Malcolm X in her arms as he died, but her role as a public servant and activist began much earlier than this pivotal public moment. Heartbeat of Struggle is the first biography of this...
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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...
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Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment (06 Edition)
by Dorothea Lange Publisher Comments "Unflinchingly illustrates the reality of life during this extraordinary moment in American history."—Dinitia Smith, New York Times Censored by the U.S. Army, Dorothea Lange's unseen photographs are the extraordinary photographic record of the...
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Volcano :a memoir of Hawai°i
by Garrett Hongo Publisher Comments Garrett Hongo grew up with a profound sense of estrangement from his past: "Family secrets, evasions, and my own ignorance fed an anger and a desire to know that would not abate." Born in Hawai'i, raised in Los Angeles after the age of six, a fourth...
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New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas Andfrom Latin America in Japen (Asian America)
by Lane Ry Hirabayashi Publisher Comments “This extremely important book marks a definite‘breakthrough’ in making a comparative analysis of a single nationality group and its descendants in several new countries. No other book encompasses such a broad, yet very detailed...
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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 In the aftermath of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the systematic exile and incarceration of thousands of Japanese Americans, the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council was born. Created to facilitate the movement of Japanese American...
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