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  • WE HEREBY REFUSE

    Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

    by Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura ...
    Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice. The story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. Japanese Americans complied when evicted from their homes in World War II -- but many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. In this groundbreaking graphic novel, meet JIM AKUTSU, the inspiration for John Okada’s No-No Boy, who refuses to be ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration

    Edited by Frank Abe, Floyd Cheung ...
    **"An indispensable, important anthology, edited with heart and sharp insight. This should be on the bookshelf of every American who loves the Constitution, and who is willing to fight to defend it." *—*Rachel Maddow“An essential volume” —Hua Hsu, The New YorkerThe collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time: the four years of World War II during which the US ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • John Okada

    The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy

    Edited by Frank Abe, Greg Robinson, Floyd Cheung ...
    No-No Boy, John Okada’s only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and, upon release from federal prison after the war, is cast out by his divided community. In 1957, the novel faced a similar rejection until it was rediscovered and reissued in 1976 to become a celebrated classic of American ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration

    Narrated by Frank Abe, Keone Young, Ren Hanami, Traci Kato-Kiriyama, Greg Watanabe ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 3 min

    **"An indispensable, important anthology, edited with heart and sharp insight. This should be on the bookshelf of every American who loves the Constitution, and who is willing to fight to defend it." *—*Rachel Maddow“An essential volume” —Hua Hsu, The New YorkerThe collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time: the four years of World War II during which the US ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Midnight in Broad Daylight

    A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds

    by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto ...
    The true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposing sides during World War II—an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, and redemption."This deeply researched and elegantly written history is a rare human drama that spans the Japanese American experience as few, if any, books have done." — USA TodayAfter their father's death, Harry, ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Infamy

    The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

    by Richard Reeves ...
    A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE • Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War IILess than three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and inflamed the nation, President Roosevelt signed an executive order declaring parts of four ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Life After Manzanar

    by Naomi Hirahara, Heather C. Lindquist ...
    " A compelling account of the lives of Japanese and Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II . . . instructive and moving."—Nippon.comFrom the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the "Resettlement": the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Letters to Memory

    by Karen Tei Yamashita ...
    This dive into the Yamashita family archive and Japanese internment runs a documentary impulse through filters that shimmer with imagination.Letters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese internment using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Looking After Minidoka

    An American Memoir

    by Neil Nakadate ...
    A "clear-eyed, carefully researched but nonetheless passionate book" that is "rich with the closely observed details of internment camp life" (Lauren Kessler, author of Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family).During World War II, 110,000 Japanese Americans were removed from their homes and incarcerated by the US government. In Looking After Minidoka, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Can We Go Back to America?

    Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII

    by Susan H. Kamei ...
    Four starred reviews!A Kirkus Reviews Best YA Nonfiction of 2021In this “riveting and indispensable” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) narrative history of Japanese Americans before, during, and after their World War II incarceration, Susan H. Kamei weaves together the voices of over 130 individuals who lived through this tragic episode, most of them as young adults.It’s difficult to believe it ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Colors of Confinement

    Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II

    Edited by Eric L. Muller ...
    Series series Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
    In 1942, Bill Manbo (1908–1992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. While there, Manbo documented both the bleakness and beauty of his surroundings, using Kodachrome film, a technology then just seven years old, to capture community celebrations and to record his family’s struggle to maintain a normal life ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Beyond the Betrayal

    The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience

    by Yoshito Kuromiya ...
    Series series Nikkei in the Americas
    Beyond the Betrayal is a lyrically written memoir by Yoshito Kuromiya (1923–2018), a Nisei member of the Fair Play Committee (FPC), which was organized at the Heart Mountain concentration camp. The first book-length account by a Nisei World War II draft resister, this work presents an insider’s perspective on the FPC and the infamous trial condemning its members' efforts. It offers not only a ... Read more

    $15.89 USD