Last witnesses : reflections on the wartime internment of Japanese Americans

This Is A Collection Of Personal Reflections And Research Illuminating A Disgraceful Chapter In American History. List Of Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Erica Harth -- Pt. 1. Parents And Children Another Spring / Toyo Suyemoto (with Susan Richardson) -- Legacy Of Silence (i) / Mitsuye Yamada -- Legacy Of Silence (ii) / Jeni Yamada -- Echoes From Generation To Generation / Donna K. Nagata -- Pt. 2. Family Secrets -- Mixing Stories / Stewart David Ikeda -- A Daughter's Need To Know / Marnie Mueller -- Return To Gila River / George F. Brown -- Pt. 3. What We Took From The Camps -- Memories From Behind Barbed Wire / John Y. Tateishi -- Pictures From Camp / Patrick S. Hayashi -- Isamu Noguchi : 5-7-a, Poston, Arizona / Robert J. Maeda -- From Manzanar To The Present : A Personal Journey / Sue Kunitomi Embrey -- Democracy For Beginners / Erica Harth -- Pt. 4. From The Past To The Future -- Ethnic Expectations : The Politics Of Staging The Internment Camps / Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro -- The Life And Times Of Rabbit In The Moon / Chizu Omori -- The Legacy Of The Battle Of Bruyères : Reflections Of A Sansei Francophile / Valeri Nao Yoshimura -- Loyalty And Concentration Camps In America : The Japanese American Precedent And The Internal Security Act Of 1950 / Allan Wesley Austin -- Nineteen In '98 : A Conversation On Studying The Internment / Jason Kohn And Cara Lemon -- Appendix. Chronology Of Events -- Contributors -- Suggestions For Further Reading -- Index. Edited By Erica Harth. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [291]-293) And Index. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 List of Photographs......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 PART I: PARENTS AND CHILDREN......Page 32 Another Spring......Page 34 Legacy of Silence (I)......Page 48 Legacy of Silence (II)......Page 60 Echoes from Generation to Generation......Page 74 PART II: FAMILY SECRETS......Page 86 Mixing Stories......Page 88 A Daughter’s Need to Know......Page 112 Return to Gila River......Page 128 PART III: WHAT WE TOOK FROM THE CAMPS......Page 140 Memories from Behind Barbed Wire......Page 142 Pictures from Camp......Page 152 "Isamu Noguchi: 5–7–A, Poston, Arizona"......Page 166 From Manzanar to the Present: A Personal Journey......Page 180 Democracy for Beginners......Page 200 PART IV: FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE......Page 216 Ethnic Expectations: The Politics of Staging the Internment Camps......Page 218 The Life and Times of Rabbit in the Moon......Page 228 The Legacy of the Battle of Bruyères: Reflections of a Sansei Francophile......Page 242 Loyalty and Concentration Camps in America: The Japanese American Precedent and the Internal Security Act of 1950......Page 266 Nineteen in ’98: A Conversation on Studying the Internment......Page 284 Appendix: Chronology of Events......Page 296 Contributors......Page 300 Suggestions for Further Reading......Page 304 B......Page 308 D......Page 309 H......Page 310 I......Page 311 L......Page 312 N......Page 313 R......Page 314 T......Page 315 Y......Page 316 Sixty Years After the Japanese Bombing of Peart Harbor and FDR's Order 9066 incarcerating over 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent (two thirds of them American citizens) one question remains unresolved: Could it happen again? To the writers in this book -- novelists, memoirists, activists, scholars, students, professionals -- the WWII internment of Japanese Americans in the detention camps of the West is an unfinished chapter of American history. Former internees and their children join with others in challenging readers to construct a better future by confronting the past. A fresh look at a compelling story, told by some of the people who lived it, that continues to tarnish the American dream. "To the writers in this book - novelists, memoirists, poets, activists, scholars, students, professionals - the World War II internment of Japanese Americans in the detention camps is an unfinished chapter of American history that mars the nostalgic glow that often surrounds the World War II home front years. Former internees, like John Tateishi and Robert Maeda, and children of detainees and of camp officials join with others in challenging readers to construct a better future by confronting this dark episode from America's World War II scrapbook."--BOOK JACKET. Over 110,000 people of Japanese descent, two-thirds of them US citizens, were incarcerated in the US during WWII. Former internees and their children join with others to offer this story, told in part by some of the people who lived it, that continues to tarnish the American Dream A rich collection of personal histories from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds takes readers inside the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. TWO SMALL KEEPSAKES THAT I HAVE TREASURED from the internment years have deep personal significance for me.