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Title

Japanese American resettlement through the lens : Hikaru Carl Iwasaki and the WRA's Photographic Section, 1943-1945 / Lane Ryo Hirabayashi ; with Kenichiro Shimada ; photographs by Hikaru Carl Iwasaki.

Author

Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo

Publication

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Iwasaki, Hikaru, 1923-
• Shimada, Kenichiro.

Description

xix, 221 p. : ill., col. map; 24 x 29 cm.

Subject

• Iwasaki, Hikaru, 1923-
• Japanese Americans > Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
• United States. Photography Section
• World War, 1939-1945 > Photography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-214) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of figures -- Foreword / Norman Y. Mineta -- THe electronic circulation of WRA photos -- Photographing Japanese American resettlement -- The WRA's approach to Japanese American resettlement, 1943-1945 -- Policy and production of WRAPS photographs -- Phase one: the WRA's photographic section, 1942 -- Phase Two: the WRA's Photographic section, 1943-1945 -- Hikaru Iwasaki's resettlement photos, 1943-1945 -- Hikaru Carl Iwasaki -- Selection -- WRA photographs -- Assessment -- Short-term impact of the WRAPS photographs -0-0 Analysis: the performative work of WRAPS photographs -- Reflections -- THe past as prologue -- Reappropriation one: assertions of humanity, courage and perseverance in the WRA camps -- Reappropriation two: resettlement challenges -- Reappropriation three: recaptioning WRAPS photos -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- References cited -- About the authors.

ISBN

• 9780870819285 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0870819283 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008054090

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library