Legacy of Injustice - Exploring the Cross-Generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critical Issues in Social Justice
Release date:	August 2014
First published:	1993
Authors:	Donna K. Nagata
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	278
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993
ISBN-13:	978-1-4899-1120-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
LSN:	1-4899-1120-0
Barcode:	9781489911209

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