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Manzanar Mosaic
Essays and Oral Histories on America's First World War II Japanese American Concentration Camp
University Press of Colorado
Forced Out
A Nikkei Woman's Search for a Home in America
University Press of Colorado
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.
Beyond the Betrayal
The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience
University Press of Colorado
Beyond the Betrayal is a lyrically written memoir by Yoshito Kuromiya, a Nisei member of the Fair Play Committee (FPC) that was organized at the Heart Mountain War Relocation Authority camp.
Barbed Voices
Oral History, Resistance, and the World War II Japanese American Social Disaster
By Arthur A. Hansen; Foreword by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
University Press of Colorado
Featuring selected inmates and camp groups, Arthur Hansen reveals why, when, where, and how some of the 120,000 incarcerated Japanese Americans spearheaded resistance movements in the ten War Relocation Authority–administered compounds in the United States during World War II.
Japanese Brazilian Saudades
Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production
University Press of Colorado
Explores the self-definition of Nikkei discourse in Portuguese-language cultural production by Brazilian authors of Japanese ancestry and suggests an alternative model of postcoloniality, particularly as it pertains to the post–World War II experience of Nikkei people in Brazil.
Distant Islands
The Japanese American Community in New York City, 1876-1930s
By Daniel H. Inouye; Foreword by David Reimers
University Press of Colorado
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.
Relocating Authority
Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration
University Press of Colorado
Taken from the Paradise Isle
The Hoshida Family Story
Edited by Heidi Kim; Foreword by Franklin Odo
University Press of Colorado
Starting from Loomis and Other Stories
By Hiroshi Kashiwagi; Edited by Tim Yamamura
University Press of Colorado
The House on Lemon Street
Japanese Pioneers and the American Dream
University Press of Colorado
Bringing this little-known story to light, The House on Lemon Street details the Haradas' decision to fight for the American dream. Chronicling their experiences from their immigration to the United States through their legal battle over their home, their incarceration during World War II, and their lives after the war, this book tells the story of the family's participation in the struggle for human and civil rights, social justice, property and legal rights, and fair treatment of immigrants in the United States.
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