| Beyond Loyalty: The Story of a Kibei Contributor(s): Kiyota, Minoru (Author), Keenan, Linda Klepinger (Translator) |
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ISBN: 082481939X ISBN-13: 9780824819392 Publisher: University of Hawaii Press OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1997 Annotation: Beyond Loyalty is the powerful and inspiring story of a young man whose life and education were rudely disrupted by the U.S. government's imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. A high school student when interned in 1942, Minoru Kiyota was so infuriated by his treatment during an FBI interrogation and by the denial of his request to leave the camp to pursue his education that he refused to affirm his loyalty as required of all internees. For this he was sent to Tule Lake Segregation Center in northern California - a holding pen for "dangerous" and "disloyal" individuals. While imprisoned there under deplorable conditions, Kiyota learned of a new law offering Japanese Americans the "opportunity" to renounce their U.S. citizenship. Although barely old enough to do so, Kiyota took this drastic step. Throughout his four long years of incarceration, he refused to resign himself to the injustices he witnessed and experienced. His story shares the fury and frustration aroused by gross violations of his rights as a U.S. citizen and shows how the painful years of internment determined the course of his life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: 973.049 |
| LCCN: 96-50319 |
| Lexile Measure: 1100 |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 5.72" W x 8.39" (0.80 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Beyond Loyalty is the powerful and inspiring story of a young man whose life and education were rudely disrupted by the U.S. government's imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Few Japanese Americans have written so frankly about the humiliation they felt during World War II. Moreover, Kiyota is perhaps the first renunciant to share publicly the mental anguish that led to and resulted from his decision to relinquish his U.S. citizenship. Further, as a kibei nisei--one of a small group of Japanese Americans who spent part of their childhood in Japan--Kiyota writes from the vantage point of an individual who is at home in two very different languages and cultures. Recent events such as the Gulf War have made it all too clear that there is still much to be learned about democracy's treatment of its ethnic minorities. By putting a human face on issues of constitutional rights that arise in time of crisis, this absorbing account deserves a wide readership. |