Naomi Hirahara

Life After Manzanar

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From 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 unjustly imprisoned during World War II, were finally released from custody. Given twenty-five dollars and a one-way bus ticket to make a new life, some ventured east to Denver and Chicago to start over, while others returned to Southern California only to face discrimination and an alarming scarcity of housing and jobs. Hirahara and Lindquist weave new and archival oral histories into an engagi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Lindquist, Heather C. / Hansen, Art (Solist)

ISBN: 978-1-59714-400-1
EAN: 9781597144001
Produktnummer: 24348930
Verlag: Heyday Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.8 cm 590 g
Gewicht: 590

Über den Autor

Naomi Hirahara is a writer of both nonfiction books and mysteries. With Geraldine Knatz, she cowrote Terminal Island: The Lost Communities of Los Angeles Harbor, which won a Bruckman Award for Excellence and an Award of Merit from the Conference of California Historical Societies. Her Edgar Award-winning Mas Arai mysteries have been published in France, Japan, and Korea. A former editor of the Rafu Shimpo newspaper, she also curates historical exhibitions and writes articles and short stories.