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Author: Naomi Hirahara Publisher: Heyday.ORIM ISBN: 1597144460 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 302
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“A compelling account of the lives of Japanese and Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II . . . instructive and moving.”—Nippon.com From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the “Resettlement”: the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been unjustly imprisoned during World War II, were finally released from custody. Given twenty-five dollars and a one-way bus ticket to make a new life, some ventured east to Denver and Chicago to start over, while others returned to Southern California only to face discrimination and an alarming scarcity of housing and jobs. Hirahara and Lindquist weave new and archival oral histories into an engaging narrative that illuminates the lives of former internees in the postwar era, both in struggle and unlikely triumph. Readers will appreciate the painstaking efforts that rebuilding required and will feel inspired by the activism that led to redress and restitution—and that built a community that even now speaks out against other racist agendas. “Through this thoughtful story, we see how the harsh realities of the incarceration experience follow real lives, and how Manzanar will sway generations to come. When you finish the last chapter you will demand to read more.”—Gary Mayeda, national president of the Japanese American Citizens League “An engaging, well-written telling of how former Manzanar detainees played key roles in remembering and righting the wrong of the World War II incarceration.”—Tom Ikeda, executive director of Densho
Author: Michael L. Cooper Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780618067787 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 92
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Through the use of rare historic footage and photographs, and personal recollections of a dozen former internees and others, this documentary explores the experiences of more than 10,000 Japanese Americans who were relocated to a remote desert facility during World War II.
Author: Hank Umemoto Publisher: Heyday.ORIM ISBN: 1597142220 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 228
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This intimate memoir offers a poignant, at times humorous account of Japanese American life in California before and after WWII. In 1942, fourteen-year-old Hank Umemoto gazed out a barrack window at Manzanar Internment Camp, saw the silhouette of Mount Whitney against an indigo sky, and vowed that one day he would climb to the top. Fifty-seven years and a lifetime of stories later, at the age of seventy-one, he reached the summit. As Umemoto wanders through the mountains of California’s Inland Empire, he recalls pieces of his childhood on a grape vineyard in the Sacramento Valley, his time at Manzanar, where beauty and hope were maintained despite the odds, and his later career as proprietor of a printing firm—sharing it all with grace, honesty, and unfailing humor.
Author: Heather C. Lindquist Publisher: Heyday Books ISBN: 9781597141604 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 146
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Eleven tumultuous weeks after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, an act that authorized the U.S. Army to undertake the rapid removal of more than one hundred thousand Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West Coast. With only a few weeks' (and sometimes only a few days') notice, families were forced to abandon their homes and, under military escort, be removed to remote and hastily erected compounds, such as Manzanar War RelocationCenter in the California desert. Children of Manzanar/i> captures the experiences of the nearly four thousand children and young adults held at Manzanar during World War II. Quotes from these children, most now in their eighties and nineties, are accompanied by photographs from both official and unofficial photographers, including Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Toyo Miyatake, himself an internee who for months secretly documented daily life inside the camp, and then openly for the remaining years Manzanar operated.
Author: Gerald H. Robinson Publisher: Carl Mautz Publishing ISBN: 9781887694230 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 126
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A collection of work by four photographers who documented the life of Japanese Americans living in relocation camps during World War II, along with historical background on this episode of American history, and information on each artist.
Author: Pico Iyer Publisher: ISBN: 9781942884293 Category : Japanese Americans Languages : en Pages : 176
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Collection of photographs taken at the Manzanar internment camp where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. Dorothea Lange was hired by the WRA to photograph the mass evacuation; she worked into the first months of the internment until she was fired by WRA staff for her "sympathetic" approach. Many of her photographs were seized by the government and largely unseen by the public for a half century. More than a year later, Manzanar Project Director Ralph Merritt hired Ansel Adams to document life at the camp. Lange and Adams were also joined by WRA photographers Russell Lee, Clem Albers and Francis Stewart. Two Japanese internees, Toyo Miyatake and Jack Iwata, secretly photographed life within the camp with a smuggled camera.
Author: Samuel Nakamura Publisher: ISBN: 9780976185215 Category : Concentration camp inmates Languages : en Pages : 207
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Nurse of Manzanar recounts the experiences of Mills College and Stanford University School of Nursing graduate Toshiko Eto over the fifteen months following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor through her internment, as an American citizen of Japanese ancestry, in the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California. The book is based on a manuscript of her experiences, discovered after her death by her son, who obtained numerous government documents, photographs, newspaper articles, maps, and other exhibits directly pertaining to his mother's expereince to bring her story to life.
Author: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Author: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Author: Naomi Hirahara
Author: John Armor
Author: Michael L. Cooper
Author: Hank Umemoto
Author: Heather C. Lindquist
Author: Gerald H. Robinson
Author: Charles W. McCurdy
Author: Pico Iyer
Author: Samuel Nakamura