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Author
Publisher
FC2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
286 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"More like a tapestry than a traditional novel, The Book of Kane and Margaret by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi blends magical elements with stories based on the oral narratives of the author's grandparents and their experiences during the 1940s at the Tulare Assembly Center and the Gila River War Relocation Center, two WWII relocation camps in Arizona. The author's technique gives the novel the effect of working through accretion, collecting one-breath fictions...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
x, 165 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From an award-winning author comes a vivid depiction of an act of war from opposing sides of the conflict in World War II--and a rare reconciliation and wish for peace that evolved years later."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles the case of Fred Korematsu, who sought compensation from the American government for his time spent in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II.
Publisher
Paw Prints
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
464 pages
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of wartime panic that followed the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, more than 100,000 Japanese Americans residing along the West Coast of the United States were uprooted from their homes and their communities and banished to internment camps throughout the country. Through personal documents, art, and propaganda, Only What We Could Carry expresses through words, art, and haunting recollections, the fear, confusion and anger of the camp...
Author
Publisher
CityFiles Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations, map ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1942 more than 109,000 Japanese Americans, including 70,000 U.S. citizens, were picked up and sent to incarceration centers, most for the duration of the war. It was the shame of America-- and it was documented on film. Cahan and Williams provide a visual history which includes interviews with many of the people reflecting on their experiences.
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1942, Bill Manbo (1908-1992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. While there, Manbo documented both the bleakness and beauty of his surroundings, using Kodachrome film, a technology then just seven years old, to capture community celebrations and to record his family's struggle to maintain a normal life under the harsh conditions of racial imprisonment. Colors...
Author
Publisher
Wing Luke Museum
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
151 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Three Japanese American individuals with different beliefs and backgrounds decided to resist imprisonment by the United States government during World War II in different ways. Jim Akutsu, considered by some to be the inspiration for John Okada's No-No Boy, resisted the draft and argued that he had no obligation to serve the US military because he was classified as an enemy alien. Hiroshi Kashiwagi renounced his United States citizenship and refused...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Baseball has been called Americas true melting pot, a game that unites us as a people. Issei Baseball is the story of the pioneers of Japanese American baseball, Harry Saisho, Ken Kitsuse, Tom Uyeda, Tozan Masko, Kiichi Suzuki, and othersyoung men who came to the United States to start a new life but found bigotry and discrimination.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
528 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American dream. Rockwell "Rocky" Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved...
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, An Imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
150 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful biography of Michi Weglyn, the Japanese American fashion designer whose activism fueled a movement for recognition of and reparations for America's World War II concentration camps. The daughter of Japanese immigrants, Michi Nishiura Weglyn was confined in Arizona's Gila River concentration camp during World War II. She later became a costume designer for Broadway and worked as the wardrobe designer for some of the most popular television...
77) Time of fear
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In World War II, more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans were forced into relocation camps across the US. This film traces the lives of the 16,000 people who were sent to two camps in southeast Arkansas, one of the poorest and most racially segregated places in America. It explores the reactions of the native Arkansans who watched in bewilderment as their tiny towns were overwhelmed by this huge influx of outsiders. Through interviews with the internees...
79) Eagle and crane
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnams Sons
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
434 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Two young daredevil flyers confront ugly truths and family secrets during the U.S. internment of Japanese citizens during World War II, from the author of The Other Typist and Three-Martini Lunch. Louis Thorn and Haruto "Harry" Yamada -- Eagle and Crane -- are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, a daredevil (and not exactly legal) flying act that traverses Depression-era California. The young men have a complicated relationship, thanks...
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