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Only what we could carry : the Japanese American internment experience

Title
Only what we could carry : the Japanese American internment experience / edited with introduction by Lawson Fusao Inada ; preface by Patricia Wakida ; afterword by William Hohri.
Publication
  • Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books ; San Francisco, Calif. : California Historical Society, [2000]
  • ©2000

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Additional Authors
  • Inada, Lawson Fusao
  • Wakida, Patricia
  • Hohri, William Minoru, 1927-2010
  • California Historical Society.
Description
xxiii, 439 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Summary
Personal documents, art, propaganda, and stories express the Japanese American experience in concentration camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor--Publisher's description.
Alternative Title
Japanese American internment experience
Subject
  • 1942-1945
  • Geschichte 1942-1945
  • Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
  • Japanese Americans
  • Umsiedlung
  • Concentration camps > United States
  • American History
  • Japanese Americans - Japanese Internment
  • japanese confinement > World War II
  • USA
  • Japaner
Genre/Form
Oregon authors.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-436).
Contents
The day we left / Ben Iijima -- Editorials in the wake of Pearl Harbor -- Eyewitness to Pearl Harbor / Clay H. Musick -- Pearl Harbor remembered / Kay Uno -- The total community / Ron Dellums -- War comes to the church door / Eleanor Breed -- Can't tell / Nellie Wong -- from I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- Photo essay : an uncertain future -- from Desert exile / Yoshiko Uchida -- Letters from a Justice Department camp / Isohei Hatashita -- from Citizen 13660 / Minʹe Okubo -- from Stray clouds / Toyo Kazato -- from Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston -- Photo essay : how I spent the war -- A far country : poems from the Arkansas camps -- from To the stars / George Takei -- A teacher at Topaz / Eleanor Gerard Sekerak -- A young Nisei's diary / Stanley Hayami -- Recollections of Heart Mountain / Peter Simpson -- Statement to the Commission / Elaine Black Yoneda -- Insufficient care / Mabel Ota -- Winter night sentry : poems from the Justice Department camps -- from Hawaii end of the rainbow / Kazuo Miyamoto -- Autobiography of an Italian internee / Ezio Pinza -- from Adios to tears / Seiichi Higashide -- A WRA Center lexicon of Japanese American terms -- Yule greetings, friends! / Globularius Schraubi -- The legend of Miss Sasagawara / Hisaye Yamamoto -- One happy family / Toshio Mori -- A thousand stitches / Henry Sugimoto -- A challenge to American sportsmanship / Eleanor Roosevelt -- from The betrayed / Hiroshi Kashiwagi -- Campus report / Lillian Ota -- Preface to No-no boy / John Okada -- from Beyond loyalty / Minoru Kiyota -- Draft resisters at Heart Mountain / Frank Seishi Emi -- Poetic reflections of the Tule Lake internment camp / Violet de Cristoforo -- No flower in vase : poems from Tule Lake -- A Nisei requests repatriation -- Presidential statement / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- from Journey to Washington / Daniel Inouye -- Action from a sergeant's diary / Min Hara -- One replacement's story / Stanley Izumigawa -- Letter to father / George Saito -- from Light one candle / Solly Ganor -- What flower worth the pain.
ISBN
  • 9781890771300
  • 1890771309
  • 9781439503089
  • 1439503087
LCCN
00009182
OCLC
  • ocm43953877
  • 43953877
  • SCSB-1209749
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library