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Author Inouye, Karen M., 1964- author.

Title The long afterlife of Nikkei wartime incarceration / Karen M. Inouye
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) : illustrations
Series Asian America
Asian America.
Contents Introduction : unearthing the past in the present -- Knowledge production as recasting experience -- Personal disclosure as a catalyst for empathetic agency -- Canadian redress as ambivalent transnationality -- Hakomite and the cultivation of empathy as activism -- Retroactive diplomas and the value of education
Summary This work re-examines the history of imprisonment of U.S. and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. It explores how historical events can linger in individual and collective memory and then crystallize in powerful moments of political engagement
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 10, 2023)
Subject Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Political prisoners -- Effect of imprisonment on -- United States
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States
Japanese Americans -- Political activity -- History
Collective memory -- United States
HISTORY / Europe / Western.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Collective memory
Concentration camps.
Japanese Americans
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016028417
ISBN 9781503600560
1503600564