Life after Manzanar
By: Naomi Hirahara and Heather C. Lindquist ; foreword by Art Hansen
Contributors: Lindquist, Heather C., author; Hansen, Art, writer of introduction
Publisher: Heyday
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781597144001
Subjects: Concentration camps; World War, 1939-1945; Civil rights; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Evacuation of civilians; Manzanar War Relocation Center; Japanese Americans; Social conditions; Reparations; Personal narratives
Description: "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 engaging narrative that illuminates the lives of former internees in the postwar era, both in struggle and unlikely triumph. Readers will appreciate the painstaking efforts that rebuilding required, and will feel inspired by the activism that led to redress and restitution--and that built a community that even now speaks out against other racist agendas"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182).
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Art Hansen; title: The gates were closed after us; title: War is over; title: Taking a stand; title: Never again; title: Epilogue.