Forced out : a Nikkei woman's search for a home in America /

'Voluntary evacuation,' a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II with roughly 120,000 people forced from their homes by Executive Order 9066. Around 5,000 escaped. Recounting her family's flight from home and the influence of those experiences. Like many familie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kawamoto, Judy (Author)
Other Authors:	Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo (writer of afterword.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2020]
Series:	George and Sakaye Aratani Nikkei in the Americas series.
Subjects:	Kawamoto, Judy. Japanese Americans > Biography. Japanese American women > Biography. Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Japanese American. Japanese Americans > Social conditions > 20th century. Psychotherapists > United States > Biography. Social workers > United States > Biography.

Table of Contents:

Battlefield to Beet Field: the Germans meet dad in World War II
A better mousetrap
Mind the gap: locating missing memories
Big Apple to big sky: meditations on space
The one and only
Crossing over
Saints and sinners
Cape Town to Japantown
Chicken, waffles, and ... Tsukemono
Pictures on the wall
Epilogue: bananas and beyond
Afterword.