Desert exile : the uprooting of a Japanese American family

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After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changed for Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile is her autobiographical account of life before and during World War II. The book does more than relate the day-to-day experience of living in stalls at the Tanforan Racetrack, the assembly center just south of San...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Uchida, Yoshiko (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, 2015.
Series:Classics of Asian American literature.
Subjects:
Uchida, Yoshiko.
Uchida, Yoshiko
Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.)
Central Utah Relocation Center.
Central Utah Relocation Center
1939-1945
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Japanese Americans > California > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Japanese Americans
California > Biography.
Californie > Biographies.
California
Biographies
Personal narratives
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : an uncommon spirit / Traise Yamamoto
  • The house above Grove Street
  • On being Japanese and American
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Evacuation
  • Tanforan : a horse stall for four
  • Tanforan : city behind barbed wire
  • Topaz : city of dust
  • Topaz : winter's despair
  • Epilogue.

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