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Author:

Tamura, Eileen.

Title:

In defense of justice : Joseph Kurihara and the Japanese American struggle for equality / Eileen H. Tamura.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xv, 228 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm

Subject:

Kurihara, Joseph Yoshisuke,--1895-1971.
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
Manzanar War Relocation Center--History.
Tule Lake Relocation Center.
Japanese Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
Japanese Americans--Cultural assimilation.
Japanese Americans--Ethnic identity.
Japanese Americans--Biography.--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Growing up American -- A Yank in France, a Jap in America -- To Manzanar -- Resistance in Manzanar -- Stepping back -- Isolating citizen dissidents -- Turmoil at Tule -- Renunciation -- Japan -- Afterword -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

Series:

The Asian American experience

ISBN:

0252037782 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252037788 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)828055970

LCCN:

2013001410

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)