Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II

Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II

Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II

Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II

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Overview

During World War II over 5,500 young Japanese Americans left the concentration camps to which they had been confined with their families in order to attend college. Storied Lives describes--often in their own words--how nisei students found schools to attend outside the West Coast exclusion zone and the efforts of white Americans to help them. The book is concerned with the deeds of white and Japanese Americans in a mutual struggle against racism, and argues that Asian American studies--indeed, race relations as a whole--will benefit from an understanding not only of racism but also of its opposition, antiracism.

To uncover this little known story, Gary Okihiro surveyed the colleges and universities the nisei attended, collected oral histories from nisei students and student relocation staff members, and examined the records of the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council and other materials.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780295977966
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 03/01/1999
Series: Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies Series
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.47(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
An Uneventful Life
Toward a Better Society
Exemplars
Yearbook Portraits
A Thousand Cranes
Antiracism
Afterword: Nisei Student Relocation Commemorative Fund
Notes
Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

Franklin S. Odo

"This is a solid contribution that will add substantially to our growing body of knowledge and will be useful in rethinking current attitudes towards racism and anti—racist movements. In so doing, it will contribute towards a more generous and less cynical view of race relations."

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