When can we go back to America? : voices of Japanese American incarceration during World War II
(2021)
By:
Kamei, Susan H.
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
TEEN/940.531773/KAMEI,S
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PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2021]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xxiv, 710 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781481401449, 1481401440 :, 9781481401449 (hardcover : alk. paper), 1481401440 (hardcover : alk. paper), 9781481401456 (pbk. : alk. paper), 1481401459 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Pearl Harbor -- Why do I have to be foreign? -- Lieutenant General John I. Dewitt -- "Voluntary" evacuation -- Civilian expulsion orders -- Exodus -- Assembly centers -- Daily life -- Silver linings -- War relocation centers -- Too close for comfort -- Conflict -- The segregated Japanese US Army -- 442nd Regimental Combat Team -- The road to liberation -- Jiy? (liberty) -- Marion Konishi's valedictorian address -- "America, our hope is in you" -- Assembly centers -- War relocation centers -- Biographies
"An oral history about Japanese internment during World War II, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, from the perspective of children and young people affected"--
Grade 7-8