Farewell to Manzanar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Farewell to Manzanar write by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston. This book was released on 2002. Farewell to Manzanar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War internment.
Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Snow Falling on Cedars write by David Guterson. This book was released on 1994. Snow Falling on Cedars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A powerful tale of the Pacific Northwest in the 1950s, reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird. Courtroom drama, love story, and war novel, this is the epic tale of a young Japanese-American and the man on trial for killing the man she loves.
Remembering Manzanar
Remembering Manzanar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remembering Manzanar write by Michael L. Cooper. This book was released on 2002. Remembering Manzanar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through the use of rare historic footage and photographs, and personal recollections of a dozen former internees and others, this documentary explores the experiences of more than 10,000 Japanese Americans who were relocated to a remote desert facility during World War II.
Southland
Southland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Southland write by Nina Revoyr. This book was released on 2003-04-01. Southland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nina Revoyr brings us a compelling story of race, love, murder, and history against the backdrop of Los Angeles. —Winner of a 2004 American Library Association Stonewall Honor Award in Literature —Winner of the 2003 Lambda Literary Award —Nominated for an Edgar Award The plot line of Southland is the stuff of a James Ellroy or a Walter Mosley novel . . . But the climax fairly glows with the good-heartedness that Revoyr displays from the very first page. —Los Angeles Times Jackie Ishida’s grandfather had a store in Watts where four boys were killed during the riots in 1965, a mystery she attempts to solve. —New York Times Book Review, included in “Where Noir Lives in the City of Angels” Nina Revoyr brings us a compelling story of race, love, murder, and history against the backdrop of Los Angeles. A young Japanese-American woman, Jackie Ishida, is in her last semester of law school when her grandfather, Frank Sakai, dies unexpectedly. While trying to fulfill a request from his will, Jackie discovers that four black teenagers were killed in the store he ran during the Watts Riots of 1965—and that the murders were never solved or reported. Along with James Lanier, a cousin of one of the victims, she tries to piece together the story of the boys’ deaths. In the process, Jackie unearths the long-held secrets of her family’s history—and her own. Moving in and out of the past, from the shipping yards and internment camps of World War II; to the barley fields of the Crenshaw District in the 1930s; to the means streets of Watts in the 1960s; to the night spots and garment factories of the 1990s, Southland weaves a tale of Los Angeles in all of its faces and forms.
WE HEREBY REFUSE
WE HEREBY REFUSE - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook WE HEREBY REFUSE write by Frank Abe. This book was released on 2021-07-16. WE HEREBY REFUSE available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice. The story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. Japanese Americans complied when evicted from their homes in World War II -- but many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. In this groundbreaking graphic novel, meet JIM AKUTSU, the inspiration for John Okada’s No-No Boy, who refuses to be drafted from the camp at Minidoka when classified as a non-citizen, an enemy alien; HIROSHI KASHIWAGI, who resists government pressure to sign a loyalty oath at Tule Lake, but yields to family pressure to renounce his U.S. citizenship; and MITSUYE ENDO, a reluctant recruit to a lawsuit contesting her imprisonment, who refuses a chance to leave the camp at Topaz so that her case could reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Based upon painstaking research, We Hereby Refuse presents an original vision of America’s past with disturbing links to the American present.
