San Antonio College Library

"Exploring Japaneseness is a collection of new essays from many of the leading scholars and researchers in Japanese studies, including specialists in communication, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and others in which the writers attempt to address the current state of what it means to be Japanese. The central questions of this volume are those which the nation of Japan is itself considering as it begins the third millennium, this insightful...

Recorded interviews with twenty-five Japanese Americans, who were among the 120,000 detained in relocation camps during World War II, reveal the scope of suffering and injustice involved.

A factual account and clarification of the integral roles of Asians in American history focuses on the period between the mid-nineteenth century and the early 1980s.

"During a brief thirteen-month period in 1944-45, 5,589 persons, one in every fourteen American citizens of Japanese descent, gave up their citizenship in the land of their birth. Most lived in Tule Lake Segregation Center, one of the ten concentration camps (euphemistically called relocation centers) created by the United States government to house its resident West Coast Japanese population at the beginning of World War II."--Author's preface

"Debates have swirled around the question of national forgiveness for the past fifty years. Using two examples, the land claims of the Oneida Indians and the claims for reparations to Japanese Americans interned during World War II, Brian Weiner suggests a way of thinking about national misdeeds. Arguing beyond collective "innocence" or "guilt," Sins of the Parents offers a model of collective responsibility to deal with past wrongs in such a way...

A collection of Asian American poetry, prose, and drama including stories by Sui Sin Far, poems from the Songs of Gold Mountains and poems by Wing Tek Lum and Lawson Fusao Inada, and excerpts from several novels.

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.

Through a new collection of primary documents about Japanese internment during World War II, this book enables a broader understanding of the injustice experienced by displaced people within the United States in the 20th century. Enables readers to see--through primary documents comprising letters written by the internees and banker J. Elmer Moorish in Redwood City, CA--how Japanese-American citizens who were interned during World War II handled their...

"The internment of Japanese Americans was a violation of the Constitution and its guarantee of equal protection under the law--yet it was authorized by a presidential order, given substance by an act of Congress, and affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Japanese American internment is a topic that we as Americans cannot afford to forget or be ignorant of. This work spotlights an important subject that is often only described in a cursory fashion in...