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  • A TEMPORARY RESIDENCE. by Hudson, Helen (1920-2013)
    Hudson, Helen (1920-2013)
    A TEMPORARY RESIDENCE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 'temporary residence' of the title is the Mt. Hope Assembly Center, a former race track converted during the early days of World War II into a detention center for Japanese-Americans. This is a well-researched and emotionally charged portrait of how the lives of those Japanese-Americans - including a World War I veteran and grandfather, a sculptor and his Jewish wife, already displaced by the Nazis several time, and others. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-399133127.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (faint mark on bottom edge)

    Book ID: 91251
    Keywords: Historical Fiction, japanese-americans, racism, relocation camps, world war ii fiction
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  • TULE LAKE. by Miyakawa, Edward.
    Miyakawa, Edward.
    TULE LAKE.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Waldport, Oregon: House By the Sea Publishing Co., (1979.). One of the first Japanese-American novels to portray the struggle for justice and freedom from within the confines of America's concentration camps by those who refused to cooperate with the internment of 120,000 of their fellow Americans during World War II. The author was seven years old when he was sent to a camp with his family. Tule Lake was unique among these camps in that it housed those who were deemed 'disloyal' by the US government. 328 pp. plus glossary.

    Condition: Very good+.

    Book ID: 46881
    Keywords: Asian and Asian American, concentration camps, japanese american, relocation camps, world war ii
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  • AND JUSTICE FOR ALL: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps. by Tateishi, John.
    Tateishi, John.
    AND JUSTICE FOR ALL: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps.

    Edition: Hardcover.

    New York: Random House, (1984). SIGNED hardcover - Contains the personal accounts of thirty Japanese-Americans - part of the only group of American citizens to be confined in concentration camps. "Over 115,000 Japanese American civilians who lived on the West Coast at the outbreak of World War II were rounded up and sent to desolate 'relocation' camps where most spent the duration of the war. Guilt by racial association was fanned into hysteria by California agriculture and labor groups, the Hearst press, and the U.S. Army, and ratified by men like Earl Warren, Walter Lippmann, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Japanese community was portrayed as a racial nest of spies and saboteurs. Yet not one Japanese American was ever…

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    New York: Random House, (1984). SIGNED hardcover - Contains the personal accounts of thirty Japanese-Americans - part of the only group of American citizens to be confined in concentration camps. "Over 115,000 Japanese American civilians who lived on the West Coast at the outbreak of World War II were rounded up and sent to desolate 'relocation' camps where most spent the duration of the war. Guilt by racial association was fanned into hysteria by California agriculture and labor groups, the Hearst press, and the U.S. Army, and ratified by men like Earl Warren, Walter Lippmann, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Japanese community was portrayed as a racial nest of spies and saboteurs. Yet not one Japanese American was ever brought to trial for disloyal activities; none was ever changed with any crime--except being ethnic Japanese." INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by Tateishi. Illustrated with photographs. Map. xxvii, 259 pp. ISBN: 0-394529553.

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    Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (bookplate on front pastedown mostly hidden by dj flap, some wear to top edge of dj, tape reinforcement on part of edge)

    Book ID: 89424
    Keywords: Asian and Asian American, relocation camps, us history, world war ii
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  • THE INVISIBLE THREAD. by Uchida, Yoshika
    Uchida, Yoshika
    THE INVISIBLE THREAD.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Julian Messner / Simon & Schuster, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's account of growing up in California in the 1930s as a 2nd generation Japanese-American and her family's internment in a Utah concentration camp during WWII. 136 pp. ISBN: 0-671741640.

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dust jacket.

    Book ID: 63425
    Keywords: Asian and Asian American, autobiography, california, concentration camp, japanese-american, memoir, nisei, relocation camps, world war ii
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