Making Home From War

by Dempster, Brian Komei; Robinson, Greg

• ISBN13: 9781597141420
• ISBN10: 1597141429
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-01
• Publisher: Heyday Books

Summary

In the Early Days of World War II, more than 110,000 Persons of Japanese ancestry-roughly two-thirds of whom were American citizens-were taken from their homes along the West Coast and imprisoned in concentration camps. When they were finally allowed, to leave, they faced a new challenged: How do you resume a life so interrupted?

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. viii
Preface	p. xiv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xx
Migration Maps	p. xxvi
Florence Ohmura Dobashi	p. 1
Outside the Fence
Reorientation
Detour
A Homecoming of Sorts
Kiku Hori Funabiki	p. 17
The Chair
Release
Reentry
Park Avenue
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Kansha
Sato Hashizume	p. 31
Leaving
Our Barrack Room
Making Ends Meet
The Back Room
The Vanport Flood
Return to Jefferson Street
Breath
Fumi Manabe Hayashi	p. 57
Leaving Topaz
The Bank Book
1616 Russell Street
Trilobite
Naoko Yoshimura ITO	p. 75
Stitching
Threads of Remembrance
Florence Miho Nakamura with Kristen Langewisch Marchetti	p. 83
Dust Storms
School in Topaz
Valentine's Day
Return to California
Back to School
Refusing To Be Forgotten
Ruth Y. Okimoto, PH.D.	p. 93
The Diamond Ring
Two Faces (artwork)
We hold these truths to be self-evident... (artwork)
Yoshito Wayne Osaki with Sally Noda Osaici	p. 99
The Tanto
The Stockade in Tule Lake
The Quiet Son
The Elderly Issei Man
The Final Act: Burying the Past
A New View
Cleaning Up
Regaining My Citizenship
Toru Saito	p. 125
Stranger
From the Fields to Home
The Next Hurdle
The Tray Line
A Country Drive
Without Warning
Voice Lesson
Daisy Uyeda Satoda	p. 143
The Red Coat
410 Austin Alley
Papa's Home-Baked Bread
King Café
Harumi Serata	p. 159
The Desert
Leaving Camp
Letters from Japan
Trick or Treat
Greyhound Bus: 1946
Michi Tashiro	p. 173
The Swing
Train Ride from Amache
The Tent Camp
The Shack
A Real House
July Fourth
Lesson Plans	p. 191
Overview of Migration: From Incarceration to Release	p. 197
WRA Statistics	p. 199
Migration Chart	p. 200
Bibliography	p. 202
About the Editor	p. 209
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