Nikkei in the Americas – serie
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14 produkter
Relocating Authority
Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration
Häftad, 2016
400 kr
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Relocating Authority examines the ways Japanese Americans have continually used writing to respond to the circumstances of their community’s mass imprisonment during World War II. Using both Nikkei cultural frameworks and community-specific history for methodological inspiration and guidance, Mira …
Taken from the Paradise Isle
The Hoshida Family Story
Av Heidi Kim
Häftad, 2015
378 kr
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Crafted from George Hoshida’s diary and memoir, as well as letters faithfully exchanged with his wife Tamae, Taken from the Paradise Isle is an intimate account of the anger, resignation, philosophy, optimism, and love with which the Hoshida family endured their separation and incarceration during …
Distant Islands
The Japanese American Community in New York City, 1876-1930s
Häftad, 2019
535 kr
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Distant Islands is a modern narrative history of the Japanese American community in New York City between America's centennial year and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Often overshadowed in historical literature by the Japanese diaspora on the West Coast, this community, which dates back to the …
Barbed Voices
Oral History, Resistance, and the World War II Japanese American Social Disaster
Häftad, 2021
417 kr
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Barbed Voices is an engaging anthology of the most significant published articles written by the well-known and highly respected historian of Japanese American history Arthur Hansen, updated and annotated for contemporary context. Featuring selected inmates and camp groups who spearheaded …
Beyond the Betrayal
The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience
Av Yoshito Kuromiya, Arthur A Hansen
Inbunden, 2022
413 kr
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Beyond the Betrayal
The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience
Av Yoshito Kuromiya, Arthur A. Hansen
Häftad, 2022
322 kr
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Beyond the Betrayal is a lyrically written memoir by Yoshito Kuromiya (1923–2018), a Nisei member of the Fair Play Committee (FPC), which was organized at the Heart Mountain concentration camp. The first book-length account by a Nisei World War II draft resister, this work presents an insider’s …
Forced Out
A Nikkei Woman's Search for a Home in America
Häftad, 2023
326 kr
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Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman’s Search for a Home in America offers insight into “voluntary evacuation,” a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II, and the lasting effects of cultural trauma. Of the roughly 120,000 people forced from their homes by Executive Order 9066, around …
Manzanar Mosaic
Essays and Oral Histories on America's First World War II Japanese American Concentration Camp
Häftad, 2023
434 kr
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Providing a new mosaic-style view of Manzanar’s complex history through unedited interviews and published scholarship, Arthur A. Hansen presents a deep, longitudinal portrait of the politics and social formation of the Japanese American community before, during, and after World War II. To begin, …
Starting from Loomis and Other Stories
Av Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Tim Yamamura
Häftad, 2013
304 kr
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A memoir in short stories, Starting from Loomis chronicles the life of accomplished writer, playwright, poet, and actor Hiroshi Kashiwagi. In this dynamic portrait of an aging writer trying to remember himself as a younger man, Kashiwagi recalls and reflects upon the moments, people, forces, …
House on Lemon Street
Japanese Pioneers and the American Dream
Häftad, 2013
275 kr
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In 1915, Jukichi and Ken Harada purchased a house on Lemon Street in Riverside, California. Close to their restaurant, church, and children's school, the house should have been a safe and healthy family home. Before the purchase, white neighbors objected because of the Haradas' Japanese ancestry, …
Japanese Brazilian Saudades
Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production
Inbunden, 2019
579 kr
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Japanese Brazilian Saudades explores the self-definition of Nikkei discourse in Portuguese-language cultural production by Brazilian authors of Japanese ancestry. Ignacio López-Calvo uses books and films by twentieth-century Nikkei authors as case studies to redefine the ideas of Brazilianness and …
Echoes of Trauma
An Oral Historical Study on the Impact of the World War II Mass Incarceration on the Health of Japanese Americans
Inbunden, 2026
441 kr
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1942 Manzanar Diary of Robert L. Brown
Owens Valley Booster as Incarceration Camp Administrator
Inbunden, 2026
428 kr
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