The Unquiet Nisei An Oral History of the Life of Sue Kunitomi Embrey

by Bahr, Diana Meyers

• ISBN13: 9780230600676
• ISBN10: 0230600670
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

An oral-history-based biography of a seminal Asian-American activist. The book traces Embrey's life from her youth in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, to her harrowing experiences in the Japanese internment camps, to her many decades of passionate advocacy on behalf of her fellow internees.

Author Biography

Diana Meyers Bahr is an independent oral historian and a former project associate at the Oral History Program of UCLA.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Series Editors' Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Manzanar National Historic Site: Fulfillment of a Mission	p. 1
Growing up in Little Tokyo	p. 11
Old Values in a New Home	p. 21
A Father's Shadow	p. 27
The Impact of the Attack on Pearl Harbor	p. 35
Manzanar: Weeping under the Apple Trees	p. 49
Manzanar: A Community of Contradictions	p. 61
Violence and Desolation	p. 71
Go Forth, Seek, and Find	p. 83
The Kunitomis, Reunited, Diminished	p. 93
Nisei Progressives and Beyond	p. 101
The Unquiet Nisei	p. 115
The Manzanar Committee	p. 125
Redress and Reparations	p. 135
Conclusion: The Legacy of Sue Kunitomi Embrey	p. 147
Afterword	p. 153
	p. 157
	p. 159
Notes	p. 161
Bibliography	p. 179
Index	p. 187
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