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Author Kamei, Susan H., author, editor.

Title When can we go back to America? : voices of Japanese American incarceration during World War II / Susan H. Kamei ; foreword by Secretary Norman Y. Mineta.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2021]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2082556~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  940.531773 KAM    AVAILABLE
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Description xxiv, 710 pages ; 24 cm
Note Grade 7-8
Contents Pearl Harbor -- Why do I have to be foreign? -- Lieutenant General John I. Dewitt -- "Voluntary" evacuation -- Civilian expulsion orders -- Exodus -- Assembly centers -- Daily life -- Silver linings -- War relocation centers -- Too close for comfort -- Conflict -- The segregated Japanese US Army -- 442nd Regimental Combat Team -- The road to liberation -- Jiy? (liberty) -- Marion Konishi's valedictorian address -- "America, our hope is in you" -- Assembly centers -- War relocation centers -- Biographies.
Summary "An oral history about Japanese internment during World War II, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, from the perspective of children and young people affected"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-686) and index.
Audience Grade 7-8
Subject Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Children -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans -- Children -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN 9781481401449 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781481401456 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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