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Legacy of Injustice Exploring the Cross-Generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment
Başlık:
Legacy of Injustice Exploring the Cross-Generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment
ISBN:
9781489911186
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed. 1993.
Yayın Bilgileri:
New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1993.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
XX, 278 p. online resource.
Series:
Critical Issues in Social Justice
Contents:
1. Historical Background -- 2. The Consequences of Injustice -- 3. Using a Cross-Generational Approach -- 4. The Sansei Research Project: Description and Methodology -- 5. Patterns of Communication -- 6. Interest in and Knowledge of the Internment -- 7. Ethnic Preference, Confidence in One's Rights, and the Possibility of a Future Internment -- 8. Perceptions of Personal and Family Impact -- 9. Perceptions of Suffering and Coping -- 10. Impact on Behaviors -- 11. Redressing Injustice -- 12. Overview and Implications of Findings -- 13. Questions for the Future -- Appendix A: Sansei Research Project Survey -- Appendix B: Sansei Research Project Interview Questions -- Appendix C: Summary of Results by Sansei and Parent Characteristics -- References.
Abstract:
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.
Dil:
English