| Legacy of Injustice: Exploring the Cross-Generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Nagata, Donna K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1489911200 ISBN-13: 9781489911209 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - Psychology | Social Psychology - Psychology | Personality |
| Dewey: 973.049 |
| Series: Critical Issues in Social Justice |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.93 lbs) 278 pages |
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| Publisher Description: At the age of 6, I discovered a jar of brightly colored shells under my grandmother's kitchen sink. When I inquired where they had come from, she did not answer. Instead, she told me in broken English, "Ask your mother. " My mother's response to the same question was, "Oh, I made them in camp. " "Was it fun?" I asked enthusiastically. "Not really," she replied. Her answer puzzled me. The shells were beautiful, and camp, as far as I knew, was a fun place where children roasted marshmallows and sang songs around the fire. Yet my mother's reaction did not seem happy. I was perplexed by this brief exchange, but I also sensed I should not ask more questions. As time went by, "camp" remained a vague, cryptic reference to some time in the past, the past of my parents, their friends, my grand- parents, and my relatives. We never directly discussed it. It was not until high school that I began to understand the significance of the word, that camp referred to a World War II American concentration camp, not a summer camp. Much later I learned that the silence surrounding discus- sions about this traumatic period of my parents' lives was a phenomenon characteristic not only of my family but also of most other Japanese American families after the war. |
