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The great unknown : Japanese American sketches
\"Introduces a readable collection of portraits about a group of extraordinary men and women who made remarkable contributions in the arts, literature, law, sports, and other fields, and shed light on largely unknown aspects of Japanese American history\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Unknown Great
Through stories of remarkable people in Japanese American
history, The Unknown Great illuminates the diversity of
the Nikkei experience from the turn of the twentieth century to the
present day. Acclaimed historian and journalist Greg Robinson
delves into a range of themes from race and interracial
relationships to sexuality, faith, and national identity. In
accessible short essays drawn primarily from his newspaper columns,
Robinson examines the longstanding interactions between African
Americans and Japanese Americans, the history of LGBTQ+ Japanese
Americans, religion in Japanese American life, mixed-race
performers and political figures, and more. This collection is sure
to entertain and inform readers, bringing fresh perspectives and
unfamiliar stories from Japanese American history and centering the
lives of unheralded figures who left their mark on American
life.
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The First Fifteen
In 1998, an Asian woman first joined the ranks of federal judges with lifetime appointments. It took ten years for the second Asian woman to be appointed. Since then, however, over a dozen more Asian women have received lifetime federal judicial appointments. This book tells the stories of the first fifteen. In the process, it recounts remarkable tales of Asian women overcoming adversity and achieving the American dream, despite being the daughters of a Chinese garment worker, Japanese Americans held in internment camps during World War II, Vietnamese refugees, and penniless Indian immigrants. Yet The First Fifteen also explores how far Asian Americans and women still have to go before the federal judiciary reflects America as a whole. In a candid series of interviews, these judges reflect upon the personal and professional experiences that led them to this distinguished position, as well as the nerve-wracking political process of being nominated and confirmed for an Article III judgeship. By sharing their diverse stories, The First Fifteen paints a nuanced portrait of how Asian American women are beginning to have a voice in determining American justice.
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The grave on the wall
\"Born on an island off the cost of Hiroshima around 1908, Midori Shimoda died in North Carolina in 1996, after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for two decades. A photographer, he was incarcerated in a Department of Justice prison during WWII under suspicion of being a spy for Japan. From his birth to contract laborer/picture-bride parents to his immigration and prewar life in Seattle's Nihonmachi, to wartime incarceration and postwar resettlement in New York City, his is a story of a man and a family vying for the American dream earnestly, but not without some bitterness. Poet Brandon Shimoda has crafted a lyrical-collage portrait of a grandfather he barely knew, and a moving meditation on memory and forgetting. The book begins with Midori's first memory (washing the feet of his own grandfather's corpse) and ends with the author's last memory of him. In between are vignettes of camellia blossoms, picture brides, suicidal monks, ancestral fires, great-grandmothers, bathhouses, atomic bomb survivors, paintings, photographs, burial mounds, golden pavilions, and dementia. In a series of pilgrimages he makes, from his own home in the Arizona desert to the family's ancestral village in Japan, to a Montana museum of WWII detention where he discovers a previously unknown photographic portrait of his grandfather, Shimoda records the search to find his grandfather--and therefore himself\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence
Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence is a compelling story of courage, community, endurance, and reparation. It shares the experiences of Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, fighting on the front lines in Italy and France, serving as linguists in the South Pacific, and working as cooks and medics. The soldiers were from Hood River, Oregon, where their families were landowners and fruit growers. Town leaders, including veterans' groups, attempted to prevent their return after the war and stripped their names from the local war memorial. All of the soldiers were American citizens, but their parents were Japanese immigrants and had been imprisoned in camps as a consequence of Executive Order 9066. The racist homecoming that the Hood River Japanese American soldiers received was decried across the nation.
Linda Tamura, who grew up in Hood River and whose father was a veteran of the war, conducted extensive oral histories with the veterans, their families, and members of the community. She had access to hundreds of recently uncovered letters and documents from private files of a local veterans' group that led the campaign against the Japanese American soldiers. This book also includes the little known story of local Nisei veterans who spent 40 years appealing their convictions for insubordination.
Watch the book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHMcFdmixLk
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Nisei Radicals
Demanding liberation, advocating for the oppressed, and
organizing for justice, siblings Mitsuye Yamada (1923-) and Michael
Yasutake (1920-2001) rebelled against respectability and
assimilation, charting their own paths for what it means to be
Nisei. Raised in Seattle and then forcibly removed and detained in
the Minidoka concentration camp, their early lives mirrored those
of many second-generation Japanese Americans. Yasutake's pacifism
endured even with immense pressure to enlist during his confinement
and in the years following World War II. His faith-based activism
guided him in condemning imperialism and inequality, and he worked
tirelessly to free political prisoners and defend human rights.
Yamada became an internationally acclaimed feminist poet,
professor, and activist who continues to speak out against racism
and patriarchy.
Weaving together the stories of two distinct but intrinsically
connected political lives, Nisei Radicals examines the
siblings' half century of dedication to global movements, including
multicultural feminism, Puerto Rican independence, Japanese
American redress, Indigenous sovereignty, and more. From
displacement and invisibility to insurgent mobilization, Yamada and
Yasutake rejected stereotypes and fought to dismantle systems of
injustice.
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