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Manzanar Mosaic

Essays and Oral Histories on America's First World War II Japanese American Concentration Camp

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Forced Out

A Nikkei Woman's Search for a Home in America

University Press of Colorado

Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman’s Search for a Home in America offers insight into “voluntary evacuation,” a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II, and the lasting effects of cultural trauma.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Beyond the Betrayal

The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience

University Press of Colorado

Beyond the Betrayal is a lyrically written memoir by Yoshito Kuromiya, a Nisei member of the Fair Play Committee (FPC) that was organized at the Heart Mountain War Relocation Authority camp.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Barbed Voices

Oral History, Resistance, and the World War II Japanese American Social Disaster

University Press of Colorado

Featuring selected inmates and camp groups, Arthur Hansen reveals why, when, where, and how some of the 120,000 incarcerated Japanese Americans spearheaded resistance movements in the ten War Relocation Authority–administered compounds in the United States during World War II.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Japanese Brazilian Saudades

Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production

University Press of Colorado

Explores the self-definition of Nikkei discourse in Portuguese-language cultural production by Brazilian authors of Japanese ancestry and suggests an alternative model of postcoloniality, particularly as it pertains to the post–World War II experience of Nikkei people in Brazil.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Distant Islands

The Japanese American Community in New York City, 1876-1930s

University Press of Colorado

A modern narrative history of the Japanese American community in New York City between America's centennial year and the Great Depression of the 1930s.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Relocating Authority

Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Taken from the Paradise Isle

The Hoshida Family Story

Edited by Heidi Kim; Foreword by Franklin Odo
University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Starting from Loomis and Other Stories

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2013
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The House on Lemon Street

Japanese Pioneers and the American Dream

University Press of Colorado

Bringing this little-known story to light, The House on Lemon Street details the Haradas' decision to fight for the American dream. Chronicling their experiences from their immigration to the United States through their legal battle over their home, their incarceration during World War II, and their lives after the war, this book tells the story of the family's participation in the struggle for human and civil rights, social justice, property and legal rights, and fair treatment of immigrants in the United States.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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