December 17 Events and Birthdays - Today in History
Check out the link at the top right for a Japanese American Internment online exhibit. Simón Bolívar died Today in History... - December 17 Events and Birthdays - Today in History is a personally written site at BellaOnline December 17 [... more]
Bella Online |
The Japanese American Experience
 This concise history brings to life the remarkable story of a century of the Japanese experience in America. Two major themes weave through the book. The first is the discrimination that has limited the options available to Japanese Americans. The second [... more]
$0.69
A1 Books |
Out Of The Frying Pan: Reflections Of A Japanese American
Out Of The Frying Pan: Reflections Of A Japanese American [... more]
$8.52
A1 Books |
Altered Lives, Enduring Community: Japanese Americans ...
The Past is not Just the Past: I grew up in Seattle hearing bits and pieces of the stories of the Japanese Americans who had been rounded up from their homes nearby in the months after Pearl Harbor and sent to inhospitable concentration camps in the [... more]
$24.95
Amazon.com |
Lauren Kessler
Lauren Kessler is the author of ten books, among them the Los Angeles Times bestseller The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes and Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family. Kessler ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Jeanne Houston
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously ... [... more]
Random House |
David Mura
In Turning Japanese, poet David Mura chronicled a year in Japan in which his sense of identity as a Japanese American was transformed. In Where the Body Meets Memory, Mura focuses on his experience growing up Japanese American in a country which ... [... more]
Random House |
Naomi Hirahara
Naomi Hirahara is a freelance writer and journalist who served for several years as an editor of The Rafu Shimpo, the largest Japanese American daily newspaper. She is the author of two previous Mas Arai mysteries, In the foothills of Pasadena, ... [... more]
Random House |
Breast and Cervical Cancer
The number of Asian American/Pacific Islander women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer has increased. Chinese American and Japanese American women have higher rates of breast cancer than women of their same age in China and Japan. Among ... [... more]
Office of Minority Health |
The Japanese American Family Album (The American Family ...
Summary of the Japanese American Experience: This book is one of the few that actually tries to tackle the long story of struggle and assimilation by Japanese Americans into American society. It starts off with an intro by George Takei and then dives [... more]
$17.95
Amazon.com |
Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home ...
How performance in war affects at home....: This is an interesting book that proves how reflective combat performance can be in influencing things at home. The book is geared into two parts, first is the story on the Japanese American experiences during [... more]
$27.50
Amazon.com |
Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American ...
Book Description: Combining heartfelt stories with first-rate scholarship, Lost and Found reveals the complexities of a people reclaiming their own history. For decades, victims of the United States' mass incarceration of Americans of Japanese descent [... more]
$24.95
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