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Author: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780618216208
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War internment.
Author: Naomi Hirahara
Publisher: Heyday.ORIM
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1597144460
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“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: Michael L. Cooper
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9780618067787
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Hank Umemoto
Publisher: Heyday.ORIM
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1597142220
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781597141604
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781887694230
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Samuel Nakamura
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780976185215
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nurse of Manzanar recounts the experiences of Mills College and Stanford University School of Nursing graduate Toshiko Eto over the fifteen months following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor through her internment, as an American citizen of Japanese ancestry, in the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California. The book is based on a manuscript of her experiences, discovered after her death by her son, who obtained numerous government documents, photographs, newspaper articles, maps, and other exhibits directly pertaining to his mother's expereince to bring her story to life.
Author: Pico Iyer
Publisher:
Published: 2018-10-23
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781942884293
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Ansel Adams
Publisher:
Published: 2012-05-24
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9781477432945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There are three editions of this book:1. The facsimile edition, a photocopy of the original book (this edition).2. A re-created edition, newly typeset and with high-quality images scanned from Adams's original prints.3. An eBook, based on the re-created edition.Ansel Adams visited Manzanar at the invitation of his friend, Ralph Merritt, its second director. He published about 65 of his photographs in a 1944 book, "Born Free and Equal," which was generally reviled, even burned, as the War was still ongoing.Adams didn't renew the copyright on the book and turned all of his Manzanar negatives and prints over to the Library of Congress. The LoC website has digital images of all 112 pages of the book, but the scanning was poorly done. I straightened the pages and cropped them slightly to fit the page size of this edition, but did not otherwise alter them in any way. This edition is exactly the same as the original, although it may be of a different physical size, as I don't know the size of the original.Copies of the original book are extremely rare and, judging from the one that the LoC scanned, even their copy is in terrible condition. This edition will make the book more accessible.To keep the cost of this book as low as possible, the resolution of the printed pages is fairly coarse, but it's still quite readable and provides the same reading experience as the original book. The re-created edition, at a higher price, is of correspondingly higher quality.
