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• They Called Us Enemy

  Takei, George, 1937-

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  A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps, as one of 120,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II.

• Nos llamaron enemigo

  Takei, George, 1937-

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  George Takei ha capturado corazones y mentes en todo el mundo con su cautivadora presencia en el escena y su compromiso incondicional con la igualdad de derechos.

• Japanese American Internment During World War II

  a History and Reference Guide

  Ng, Wendy L.,

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  A history and reference guide to the Japanese American internment during World War II.

• Life After Manzanar

  Hirahara, Naomi, 1962-

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  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.

• Children of Manzanar

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  Captures the experiences of some of the nearly four thousand children and young adults held at Manzanar during World War II under Executive Order 9066, an act that authorized the U.S. Army to undertake the rapid removal of more than one hundred…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When the Emperor Was Divine

  a Novel

  Otsuka, Julie, 1962-

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  Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any previously written--a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times.

• Peaceful Painter

  Memoirs of An Issei Woman Artist

  Hibi, Hisako, 1907-1991

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  Hisako Hibi's art, and the informal journals and notes that she kept while at Topaz internment camp in Utah during World War II, are the basis for this elegant book.

• No-no Boy

  Okada, John,

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  After World War II Ichiro returns home to Seattle after four years--two spent in a Japanese internment camp, and two in prison for refusing to fight in the U.S. Army--and finds himself rejected by still-frightened whites as well as his own people.

• Lost and Found

  Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration

  Ishizuka, Karen L.

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  Combining heartfelt stories with first-rate scholarship, "Lost and Found" reveals the complexities of a people reclaiming their own history.

• Placing Memory

  a Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment

  Stewart, Todd, 1963-

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  Featuring Todd Stewart's stunning color photographs of the sites as they appear today, Placing Memory is a powerful visual record of the internment.

• Nisei Daughter

  Sone, Monica Itoi, 1919-2011

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  With charm, humor, and deep understanding, Monica Sone tells what it was like to grow up Japanese American on Seattle's waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to "relocation" during World War II.

• Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

  Yamamoto, Hisaye

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  Nineteen stories spanning Hisaye Yamamoto's forty-year career cover themes including the cultural conflicts between the first generation, the Issei, and their children, the Nisei; coping with prejudice; and the World War II internment of Japanese…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Infamy

  the Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

  Reeves, Richard, 1936-2020

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  This book provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II.

• American Sutra

  a Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War

  Williams, Duncan Ryūken, 1969-

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  The mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II is not only a tale of injustice; it is a moving story of faith.

• The Grave on the Wall

  Shimoda, Brandon,

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  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, Midori Shimoda's life is a story of a man and a family vying for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Eye for Injustice

  Robert C. Sims and Minidoka

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  This book, about the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho, contains a selection of Robert Sims's published articles, conference papers, speeches, and slide shows on Minidoka and Japanese internment.

• May Sky

  There Is Always Tomorrow : An Anthology of Japanese American Concentration Camp Kaiko Haiku

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  The dark time in American history of the arrest and internment of Japanese American citizens in World War II is here presented in terms of the important cultural activity of the haiku clubs and their members.

• Silver Like Dust

  One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment

  Grant, Kimi Cunningham

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  A young girl growing up in rural Pennsylvania eschews her Japanese heritage until she learns the details of the time her grandmother spent in an internment camp along with 112,000 other Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

• Forced Out

  a Nikkei Woman's Search for a Home in America

  Kawamoto, Judy,

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  "Voluntary evacuation," a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II with roughly 120,000 people forced from their homes by Executive Order 9066. Around 5,000 escaped. Recounting her family's flight from home and the influence of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Eagles of Heart Mountain

  a True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America

  Pearson, Bradford,

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  A painstakingly researched account details the tragic and triumphant story of the Eagles, a high school football team from Cody, Wyoming's World War II Japanese-American incarceration camp.