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Examines the resettlement of the Japanese American community after internment during World War II. Tanaka explores the damaging impact it had on its children growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, and relates her own family's struggle during the harsh post-camp years. The community seemed to put...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Visual Communications/Asian American Studies Central
Other Authors:	Tanaka, Janice, Nako, Joyce, Mabalot, Linda
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	English
Published:	[United States?] : Visual Communications, [1999]
Subjects:	Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 > Psychological aspects. Concentration camps > United States > Psychological aspects. Japanese Americans > Social conditions. Japanese American families > California. Japanese Americans > Ethnic identity. Japanese Americans > California > Interviews. Documentary films.

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Summary:	Examines the resettlement of the Japanese American community after internment during World War II. Tanaka explores the damaging impact it had on its children growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, and relates her own family's struggle during the harsh post-camp years. The community seemed to put their unjust incarceraton behind them but in reality, class, race, religion, stereotyping, lack of ethnic values, emotional and familial distance caused a serious identity crisis.
Item Description:	Videorecording.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	DVD.