| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Discovering: A Personal and Community Recovery Project -- The Fate of the "Wingless Birds" I: Issei Immigration, Prewar Lives, Seizure and Arrest -- The Fate of the "Wingless Birds" II: Issei Hearings, Internment, Exile -- In Exile I: The Journey, a Captive Life, and Issei Resistance -- In Exile II: Battling "Barbed Wire Disease": Strategies for Survival and Resistance -- In Exile III: Literacy and Surviving Captivity -- Compounded Ironies I: "Alien Enemy" Fathers, American Patriot Sons -- Compounded Ironies II: Advocacy in Death and Life -- Return from Exile and Rebundling |
| Summary |
"Remembering Our Grandfathers' Exile: US Imprisonment of Hawaiʻi's Japanese in World War II is a composite chronicling of the Hawaiʻi Japanese immigrant experience in mainland exile and internment during WWII--from pre-war climate to arrest to exile to return. Told through the eyes of a granddaughter and researcher born during that war, it is also a research narrative that reveals parallels between pre-WWII conditions and current 21st century anti-immigrant attitudes and heightened racism. It includes an introduction of Okawa's grandfather, Reverend Tamasaku Watanabe, a Protestant minister, and other Issei prisoners-all legal immigrants excluded by law from citizenship--in a collective biographical narrative that depicts their suffering, challenges, and survival as highly literate men faced with captivity in the little-known prison camps run by the U.S. Justice and War Departments"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 25, 2020) |
| Subject |
Japanese Americans -- Hawaii -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- Hawaii
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural, Ethnic & Regional -- Asian & Asian American.
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Evacuation of civilians
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Hawaii
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780824883195 |
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0824883195 |
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9780824883201 |
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0824883209 |
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