Storied lives
Subtitle: Japanese American students and World War II
By: Gary Y. Okihiro ; with a contribution by Leslie A. Ito.
Contributors: Ito, Leslie A.
Series: The Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans; Japanese American college students -- Social conditions; Japanese American college students -- Economic conditions; Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations
Description: During World War II over 5,500 young Japanese Americans left the concentration camps to which they had been confined with their families in order to attend college. Storied Lives describes - often in their own words - how nisei students found schools to attend outside the West Coast exclusion zone and the efforts of white Americans to help them.

The book is concerned with the deeds of white and Japanese Americans in a mutual struggle against racism, and argues that Asian American studies - indeed, race relations as a whole - will benefit from an understanding not only of racism but also of its opposition, antiracism.

To uncover this little known story, Gary Okihiro surveyed the colleges and universities the nisei attended, collected oral histories from nisei students and student relocation staff members, and examined the records of the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council and other materials.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-173) and index.