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Provides a window into the history of Japanese Americans during the first half of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

CoverTitle PageCopyright PageContentsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Growing Up AmericanChapter 2. A Yank in France, a Jap in AmericaChapter 3. To ManzanarChapter 4. Resistance in ManzanarChapter 5. Stepping BackChapter 6. Isolating Citizen DissidentsChapter 7. Turmoil at TuleChapter 8. RenunciationChapter 9. JapanAfterwordNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

About the Author

Eileen H. Tamura is a professor in the Department of Educational Foundations, College of Education, at the University of Hawai'i Manoa. She is the author of Americanization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity: The Nisei Generation in Hawaii and coauthor of The Rise of Modern Japan.

Reviews

"A substantial contribution to Japanese American historiography and collective memory. Tamura clearly sets forth the importance of dissident leader Joseph Kurihara as a quintessential personification of the transformation of Japanese Americans from patriots to protestors as a consequence of their unjust World War II eviction and imprisonment." --Arthur A. Hansen, coeditor of Reflections on Shattered Windows: Promises and Prospects for Asian American Studies