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Author : Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston,James D. Houston
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618216200
A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War internment.
Author : John Armor,Peter Wright
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050724478
Author : Jane Wehrey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738558087
East of the rugged Sierra Nevada in California's Owens Valley lies Manzanar. Founded in 1910 as a fruit-growing colony, it was named in Spanish for the fragrant apple orchards that once filled its spectacularly scenic landscape. Owens Valley Paiute lived there first, followed by white homesteaders and ranchers. But with the onset of World War II came a new identity as the first of 10 "relocation centers" hastily built in 1942 to house 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of them American citizens, removed from the West Coast. In the face of upheaval and loss, Manzanar's 10,000 confined residents created parks, gardens, and a functioning wartime community within the camp's barbed-wire-enclosed square mile of flimsy barracks. Today Manzanar National Historic Site commemorates this and all of Manzanar's unique communities.
Author : Michael L. Cooper
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0618067787
Through the use of rare historic footage and photographs, and personal recollections of a dozen former internees and others, this documentary explores the experiences of more than 10,000 Japanese Americans who were relocated to a remote desert facility during World War II.
Author : Naomi Hirahara,Heather C. Lindquist
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781597144469
“A compelling account of the lives of Japanese and Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II . . . instructive and moving.”—Nippon.com From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the “Resettlement”: the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been unjustly imprisoned during World War II, were finally released from custody. Given twenty-five dollars and a one-way bus ticket to make a new life, some ventured east to Denver and Chicago to start over, while others returned to Southern California only to face discrimination and an alarming scarcity of housing and jobs. Hirahara and Lindquist weave new and archival oral histories into an engaging narrative that illuminates the lives of former internees in the postwar era, both in struggle and unlikely triumph. Readers will appreciate the painstaking efforts that rebuilding required and will feel inspired by the activism that led to redress and restitution—and that built a community that even now speaks out against other racist agendas. “Through this thoughtful story, we see how the harsh realities of the incarceration experience follow real lives, and how Manzanar will sway generations to come. When you finish the last chapter you will demand to read more.”—Gary Mayeda, national president of the Japanese American Citizens League “An engaging, well-written telling of how former Manzanar detainees played key roles in remembering and righting the wrong of the World War II incarceration.”—Tom Ikeda, executive director of Densho
Author : Mack Mayeda
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781462804788
I was twenty-two years of age when I was incarcerated in Manzanar Concentration Camp in April 1942 from West Los Angeles, California. The majority of the Japanese-American Niseis who were also stuck in Manzanar Camp were younger in age, so my memory of camp life may differ somewhat from what they remember. I had a few years of hard labor under my belt and also experienced a few cases of discrimination along the way before incarceration. Everybody experiences life in different ways, some good, some bad. My life in Camp was just another story.
Author : Arthur A. Hansen
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781646424221
Providing a new mosaic-style view of Manzanar’s complex history through unedited interviews and published scholarship, Arthur A. Hansen presents a deep, longitudinal portrait of the politics and social formation of the Japanese American community before, during, and after World War II. To begin, Hansen presents two essays, the first centering on his work with Ronald Larson in the mid-1970s on the history of Doho, a Japanese and English dual-language newspaper, and the second an article with David Hacker on revisionist ethnic perspectives of the Manzanar “riot.” A second section is composed of five oral history interviews of selected camp personalities—a female Nisei journalist, a male Nisei historical documentarian, a male Kibei Communist block manager, the Caucasian wife and comrade of the block manager, and the male Kibei who was the central figure in the Manzanar Riot/Revolt—that offer powerful insight into the controversial content of the two essays that precede them. Manzanar can be understood only by being considered within the much wider context of Japanese American community formation and contestation before, during, and after World War II. A varied collection of scholarly articles and interviews, Manzanar Mosaic engages diverse voices and considers multiple perspectives to illuminate aspects of the Japanese American community, the ethnic press, the Manzanar concentration camp, and the movement for redress and reparations.
Author : Harlan D. Unrau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Historic sites
ISBN : NYPL:33433045844200
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030187355
Author : Harlan D. Unrau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN : UOM:39015041353015
Author : Hank Umemoto
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781597142229
This intimate memoir offers a poignant, at times humorous account of Japanese American life in California before and after WWII. In 1942, fourteen-year-old Hank Umemoto gazed out a barrack window at Manzanar Internment Camp, saw the silhouette of Mount Whitney against an indigo sky, and vowed that one day he would climb to the top. Fifty-seven years and a lifetime of stories later, at the age of seventy-one, he reached the summit. As Umemoto wanders through the mountains of California’s Inland Empire, he recalls pieces of his childhood on a grape vineyard in the Sacramento Valley, his time at Manzanar, where beauty and hope were maintained despite the odds, and his later career as proprietor of a printing firm—sharing it all with grace, honesty, and unfailing humor.
Author : Heather C. Lindquist
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1597141607
Eleven tumultuous weeks after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, an act that authorized the U.S. Army to undertake the rapid removal of more than one hundred thousand Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West Coast. With only a few weeks' (and sometimes only a few days') notice, families were forced to abandon their homes and, under military escort, be removed to remote and hastily erected compounds, such as Manzanar War RelocationCenter in the California desert. Children of Manzanar/i> captures the experiences of the nearly four thousand children and young adults held at Manzanar during World War II. Quotes from these children, most now in their eighties and nineties, are accompanied by photographs from both official and unofficial photographers, including Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Toyo Miyatake, himself an internee who for months secretly documented daily life inside the camp, and then openly for the remaining years Manzanar operated.
Author : Gerald H. Robinson
Publisher : Carl Mautz Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1887694234
A collection of work by four photographers who documented the life of Japanese Americans living in relocation camps during World War II, along with historical background on this episode of American history, and information on each artist.
Author : Pico Iyer,Nancy Matsumoto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Japanese Americans
ISBN : 194288429X
Collection of photographs taken at the Manzanar internment camp where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. Dorothea Lange was hired by the WRA to photograph the mass evacuation; she worked into the first months of the internment until she was fired by WRA staff for her "sympathetic" approach. Many of her photographs were seized by the government and largely unseen by the public for a half century. More than a year later, Manzanar Project Director Ralph Merritt hired Ansel Adams to document life at the camp. Lange and Adams were also joined by WRA photographers Russell Lee, Clem Albers and Francis Stewart. Two Japanese internees, Toyo Miyatake and Jack Iwata, secretly photographed life within the camp with a smuggled camera.
Author : Harry Yoshio Ueno
Publisher : California State University (Fullerton)
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004847930