Description
Book SynopsisProvides a window into the history of Japanese Americans during the first half of the twentieth century.
Trade Review"A substantial contribution to Japanese American historiography and collective memory. Tamura clearly sets forth the importance of dissident leader Joseph Kurihara as a quintessential personification of the transformation of Japanese Americans from patriots to protestors as a consequence of their unjust World War II eviction and imprisonment."--Arthur A. Hansen, coeditor of
Reflections on Shattered Windows: Promises and Prospects for Asian American Studies"Tamura has done a great job of research and examination of this individual and of the history of the Japanese American community during WWII."--International Examiner
"A masterpiece deserving of inclusion in the pantheon of books on Japanese American World War II dissent-protest-resistance."--
Nichi Bei Weekly"Beautifully written."--
The Journal of American History"A notable addition to the revisionist literature on the wartime removal and confinement of West Coast Japanese Americans."--
Pacific Affairs
