2024 Adult Asian Pacific American Heritage

 

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1. When can we go back to America?: voices of Japanese American incarceration during World War II

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Kamei, Susan H.
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It’s difficult to believe it happened here, in the Land of the Free: After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States government forcibly removed more than 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry from the Pacific Coast and imprisoned them in desolate detention camps until the end of World War II just because of their race. In what Secretary Norman Y. Mineta describes as a “landmark book,” he and others who lived through this harrowing...