Research Catalog

Title

Life after Manzanar / Naomi Hirahara and Heather C. Lindquist ; foreword by Art Hansen.

Author

Hirahara, Naomi, 1962-

Publication

• Berkeley, CA : Heyday ; Independence, CA : Manzanar History Association, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lindquist, Heather C.
• Hansen, Art

Description

xvii, 187 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"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"--

Subjects

• Concentration camps > United States
• Concentration camps > California > Manzanar
• Japanese Americans > Social conditions > 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 > Evacuation of civilians > United States
• Japanese Americans > Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 > Personal narratives
• Japanese Americans > Reparations
• Manzanar War Relocation Center
• Japanese Americans > Civil rights

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182).

Contents

Foreword / by Art Hansen -- The gates were closed after us -- War is over -- Taking a stand -- Never again -- Epilogue.

Call Number

JFE 18-4852

ISBN

• 9781597144001
• 1597144002

LCCN

2017043202

OCLC

1006442753

Author

Hirahara, Naomi, 1962- author.

Title

Life after Manzanar / Naomi Hirahara and Heather C. Lindquist ; foreword by Art Hansen.

Publisher

Berkeley, CA : Heyday ; Independence, CA : Manzanar History Association, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182).

Added Author

Lindquist, Heather C., author.

Hansen, Art, writer of introduction.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-4852