Nisei : the quiet Americans / Bill Hosokawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hosokawa, Bill.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese Americans--History.

Japanese Americans.

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 570 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, [2002]

Summary:

Account of the original Japanese immigrants and their role in the American West.

Contents:

Part 1 The Early Years

1 The Origins 3

2 Meeting of Two Nations 13

3 The First Issei 19

4 The Vanguard Arrives 31

5 The Sign of the Dollar 41

6 Work for Willing Hands 59

7 Neither White Nor African 79

8 No Land, No Immigration 99

9 Wretches, Rascals and Churches 115

10 The Miniature Giants 133

11 The Nisei Arrive 151

12 The Search for Identity 171

13 The Birth of Jacl 191

14 The Long Hot Summer of 1941 207

Part 2 The Years of Travail

15 December 7, 1941 223

16 The Unhappy Days 243

17 The Rising Cry 257

18 A Faulty Diagnosis 283

19 The Exodus 303

20 Behind Barbed Wire 337

21 A Time of Bitterness, Valor and Confusion 359

22 The Dedicated Jacl-Ers 379

23 Proof in Blood 393

24 Two Angry Irishmen 423

Part 3 The Years of Fulfillment

25 Justice in the Courts 435

26 Hawaii, the Chance that was Ours 457

27 When Opportunity Knocked 473

Guide to Pronunciation of Japanese Names 499.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0870816683

OCLC:

48966646