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This book illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. A vast and ever-growing literature exists, first on the entry and settlement of Japanese immigrants in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, then on the experience of the immigrants and their American-born children during World War II. Yet the essential question, \"What happened afterwards?\" remains all but unanswered in historical literature. Excluded from the wartime economic boom and scarred psychologically by their wartime ordeal, the former camp inmates struggled to remake their lives in the years that followed. This volume consists of a series of case studies that shed light on various developments relating to Japanese Americans in the aftermath of their wartime confinement, including resettlement nationwide, the mental and physical readjustment of the former inmates, and their political engagement, most notably in concert with other racialized and ethnic minority groups.
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I Call to Remembrance
Toyo Suyemoto is known informally by literary scholars and the media as \"Japanese America's poet laureate.\" But Suyemoto has always described herself in much more humble terms. A first-generation Japanese American, she has identified herself as a storyteller, a teacher, a mother whose only child died from illness, and an internment camp survivor. Before Suyemoto passed away in 2003, she wrote a moving and illuminating memoir of her internment camp experiences with her family and infant son at Tanforan Race Track and, later, at the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah, from 1942 to 1945.
A uniquely poetic contribution to the small body of internment memoirs, Suyemoto's account includes information about policies and wartime decisions that are not widely known, and recounts in detail the way in which internees adjusted their notions of selfhood and citizenship, lending insight to the complicated and controversial questions of citizenship, accountability, and resistance of first- and second-generation Japanese Americans.
Suyemoto's poems, many written during internment, are interwoven throughout the text and serve as counterpoints to the contextualizing narrative. Suyemoto's poems, many written during internment, are interwoven throughout the text and serve as counterpoints to the contextualizing narrative. A small collection of poems written in the years following her incarceration further reveal the psychological effects of her experience.
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Reclaiming the Southwest: A Traumatic Space in the Japanese American Internment Narrative
More than a spatial category or a topographical term, the US Southwest identifies a region geographically vast, cartographically elusive, and culturally heterogeneous. The contemporary Southwest is a north to Hispanic Americans as a lost homeland; a west to Anglo-Americans as a refuge free of schedules and materialistic, hierarchical lifestyles; and a spiritual and sacred center to Native Americans. Here, Chen and Yu examine the traumatic space in the Japanese American interment narratives.
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Resistance to Images of the Internment: Mitsuye Yamada’s Camp Notes
Patterson examines Mitsuye Yamada's poems about the wartime internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. The concept of \"obligation\" is at the center of Yamada's poems on the experience.
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Breaking the Silence: Sharing the Japanese American Internment Experience with Adolescent Readers
Discusses 26 books that can help promote inquiry and discussion among adolescent readers regarding the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Notes that the books provide a historical overview and reveal personal points of view about the internment. (SR)
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Kubota
An excerpt from \"Shining Wisdom of the Law: Japanese Americans and Redress\" describes a man's remembrances of his Japanese American grandfather. Kubota was born in Hawaii but sent back to Japan for a formal education.
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Strangers in a Strange Land: Read-Alouds Give Us Insight into Others' Struggles
Read-alouds boost listening and reading comprehension skills and bring subjects to life in a way that textbooks cannot. This article presents three literature-based social studies units, which offer some fresh choices to invigorate lessons. For each unit, a recently published novel is highlighted as a read-aloud or group reading selection and paired with two supplementary picture books or nonfiction titles. These additional titles will provide context as well as pictures or photos to introduce, and offer other points of view for contrast and comparison. While at first glance the three topics--immigration for elementary grades, Japanese internment for middle school, and Nazi Germany for high school--may seem disparate, all three featured works share themes of prejudice, family, and friendship. Not surprisingly, the gravity and intensity of the themes increases with the audience's age.
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