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Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience

Lawson Fusao Inada

4.3/5 ( ratings)

An Important Classic in Heyday's California In the wake of wartime panic that followed the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, more than 100,000 Japanese Americans residing along the West Coast of the United States were uprooted from their homes and their communities and banished to internment camps throughout the country. Through personal documents, art, and propaganda, Only What We Could Carry expresses through words, art, and haunting recollections, the fear, confusion and anger of the camp experience. The only anthology of its kind, Only What We Could Carry is an emotional and intellectual testament to the dignity, spirit and strength of the Japanese American internees. A project of the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program

Language: English

Pages: 480

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Heyday

Release: August 01, 2000

ISBN: 1890771309

ISBN 13: 9781890771300

Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience

Lawson Fusao Inada

4.3/5 ( ratings)

An Important Classic in Heyday's California In the wake of wartime panic that followed the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, more than 100,000 Japanese Americans residing along the West Coast of the United States were uprooted from their homes and their communities and banished to internment camps throughout the country. Through personal documents, art, and propaganda, Only What We Could Carry expresses through words, art, and haunting recollections, the fear, confusion and anger of the camp experience. The only anthology of its kind, Only What We Could Carry is an emotional and intellectual testament to the dignity, spirit and strength of the Japanese American internees. A project of the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program

Language: English

Pages: 480

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Heyday

Release: August 01, 2000

ISBN: 1890771309

ISBN 13: 9781890771300

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