"His best stories from the field are not tagging along with Capa and Hemingway...or having drinks at the Ritz in Parts with Marlene Dietrich; they are his less flashy but moving descriptions of the Japanese internment camps in California." - Leslie Cockburn, Los Angeles Times Book Review ...
Still, she recounts how--because her husband was Japanese--children would throw eggs and tomatoes at him as he rode to work in the streetcar, and how her 22-year-old son died of scarlet fever while in a World War II internment camp. As she speaks, it is hard to imagine that this ...
During World War II, the United States government imprisoned people of Japanese descent in internment camps. Shorty and his father build a baseball diamond in the dusty field of the camp. Shorty uses the game to build his self-confidence and channel his anger at the guards. Despite the ...
ahostility toward Japanese Americans (internment camps) was part of a long standing prejudice intensified by fear of sedition 敌意往日本美国人 (俘虏收容所) 是对煽动叛乱的恐惧增强的一种常任偏见的一部分[translate] aSticky: Picture Posting Rules! 稠粘: 图片投稿规则![translate]...
Many popular historical topics in children’s and young adult literature— slavery, the Jim Crow South, Japanese internment camps of World War II, and the genocide of Native Americans, to name just a few—are set in the midst of the incomprehensible horrors of American history. As literary ...