Bibliograph

Only what we could carry, the Japanese American internment experience, edited with introduction by Lawson Fusao Inada ; preface by Patricia Wakida ; afterword by William Hohri

Type

Label

Only what we could carry, the Japanese American internment experience, edited with introduction by Lawson Fusao Inada ; preface by Patricia Wakida ; afterword by William Hohri

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-436)

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Only what we could carry

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

edited with introduction by Lawson Fusao Inada ; preface by Patricia Wakida ; afterword by William Hohri

Sub title

the Japanese American internment experience

Summary

Personal documents, art, propaganda, and stories express the Japanese American experience in internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor

Table Of Contents

The day we left / Ben Iijima -- Editorials in the wake of Pearl Harbor -- Eyewitness to Pearl Harbor / Clay H. Musick -- Pearl Harbor remembered / Kay Uno -- The total community / Ron Dellums -- War comes to the church door / Eleanor Breed -- Can't tell / Nellie Wong -- from I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- Photo essay : an uncertain future -- from Desert exile / Yoshiko Uchida -- Letters from a Justice Department camp / Isohei Hatashita -- from Citizen 13660 / Minʹe Okubo -- from Stray clouds / Toyo Kazato -- from Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston -- Photo essay : how I spent the war -- A far country : poems from the Arkansas camps -- from To the stars / George Takei -- A teacher at Topaz / Eleanor Gerard Sekerak -- A young Nisei's diary / Stanley Hayami -- Recollections of Heart Mountain / Peter Simpson -- Statement to the Commission / Elaine Black Yoneda -- Insufficient care / Mabel Ota -- Winter night sentry : poems from the Justice Department camps -- from Hawaii end of the rainbow / Kazuo Miyamoto -- Autobiography of an Italian internee / Ezio Pinza -- from Adios to tears / Seiichi Higashide -- A WRA Center lexicon of Japanese American terms -- Yule greetings, friends! / Globularius Schraubi -- The legend of Miss Sasagawara / Hisaye Yamamoto -- One happy family / Toshio Mori -- A thousand stitches / Henry Sugimoto -- A challenge to American sportsmanship / Eleanor Roosevelt -- from The betrayed / Hiroshi Kashiwagi -- Campus report / Lillian Ota -- Preface to No-no boy / John Okada -- from Beyond loyalty / Minoru Kiyota -- Draft resisters at Heart Mountain / Frank Seishi Emi -- Poetic reflections of the Tule Lake internment camp / Violet de Cristoforo -- No flower in vase : poems from Tule Lake -- A Nisei requests repatriation -- Presidential statement / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- from Journey to Washington / Daniel Inouye -- Action from a sergeant's diary / Min Hara -- One replacement's story / Stanley Izumigawa -- Letter to father / George Saito -- from Light one candle / Solly Ganor -- What flower worth the pain

Target audience

adult

Classification