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Remembering our grandfathers' exile : US imprisonment of Hawaii's Japanese in World War II / Gail Y. Okawa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Okawa, Gail Y., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese Americans--Hawaii--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
- Japanese Americans.
- World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--Hawaii.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Remembering Our Grandfathers' Exile: US Imprisonment of Hawaii's Japanese in World War II is a composite chronicling of the Hawaii Japanese immigrant experience in mainland exile and internment during WWII--from pre-war climate to arrest to exile to return. Told through the eyes of a granddaughter and researcher born during that war, it is also a research narrative that reveals parallels between pre-WWII conditions and current 21st century anti-immigrant attitudes and heightened racism. It includes an introduction of Okawa's grandfather, Reverend Tamasaku Watanabe, a Protestant minister, and other Issei prisoners-all legal immigrants excluded by law from citizenship--in a collective biographical narrative that depicts their suffering, challenges, and survival as highly literate men faced with captivity in the little-known prison camps run by the U.S. Justice and War Departments"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Discovering: A Personal and Community Recovery Project
- The Fate of the "Wingless Birds" I: Issei Immigration, Prewar Lives, Seizure and Arrest
- The Fate of the "Wingless Birds" II: Issei Hearings, Internment, Exile
- In Exile I: The Journey, a Captive Life, and Issei Resistance
- In Exile II: Battling "Barbed Wire Disease": Strategies for Survival and Resistance
- In Exile III: Literacy and Surviving Captivity
- Compounded Ironies I: "Alien Enemy" Fathers, American Patriot Sons
- Compounded Ironies II: Advocacy in Death and Life
- Return from Exile and Rebundling.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780824883195
- 0824883195
- OCLC:
- 1183954809
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