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Breaking the Silence

Yasuko I Takezawa

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  • 248 sidor
  • 1995
This book is a unique interpretation of how wartime internment and the movement for redress affected Japanese Americans. Yasuko I. Takezawa, a Japanese national who has lived in the Japanese American community as well as in the larger American society, has a distinctive vantage point from which to assess the changing meaning of being a Japanese American. Takezawa focuses on the impact of two critical incidents in Japanese American historythe wartime evacuation and internment of more than a hundred thousand individuals and the redress campaign that resulted in an official apology and reparation payments from the U.S. government. Her book is a moving account filled with personal storiesboth painful and joyoustold to her by Nisei and Sansei (second- and third-generation) interviewees in Seattle. Covering the period before, during, and after World War II, Takezawa captures the internal struggles of the Japanese American community in seeking redress. She shows how its members have handled identity crises caused by racial discrimination, evacuation and internment, and the long-prevalent American ideology of the melting pot. She is particularly skillful in comparing the differences between the generations as they sorted out their experiences and reconfirmed their ethnic identity through the redress movement.
  • Författare: Yasuko I Takezawa
  • Illustratör: unspecified 15 Illustrations
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780801481819
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 248
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1995-02-01
  • Förlag: Cornell University Press