Desert exile : the uprooting of a Japanese American family /
Uchida, Yoshiko,
Desert exile : the uprooting of a Japanese American family / Yoshiko Uchida ; with a new introduction by Traise Yamamoto. - Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xxii, 156 pages) : illustrations - Classics of Asian American literature .
Originally published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1982.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction to the 2015 edition -- The house above Grove Street -- On being Japanese and American -- Pearl Harbor -- Evacuation -- Tanforan : a horse stall for four -- Tanforan : city behind barbed wire -- Topaz : city of dust -- Topaz : winter's despair -- Epilogue.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changed for Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile is her autobiographical account of life before and during World War II. The book does more than relate the day-to-day experience of living in stalls at the Tanforan Racetrack, the assembly center just south of San Francisco, and in the Topaz, Utah, internment camp. It tells the story of the courage and strength displayed by those who were interned.
9780295806532
2014050122
Uchida, Yoshiko.
Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.)
Central Utah Relocation Center.
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Japanese Americans--California--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
Electronic Books.
D769 / .D474 2015
Desert exile : the uprooting of a Japanese American family / Yoshiko Uchida ; with a new introduction by Traise Yamamoto. - Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xxii, 156 pages) : illustrations - Classics of Asian American literature .
Originally published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1982.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction to the 2015 edition -- The house above Grove Street -- On being Japanese and American -- Pearl Harbor -- Evacuation -- Tanforan : a horse stall for four -- Tanforan : city behind barbed wire -- Topaz : city of dust -- Topaz : winter's despair -- Epilogue.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changed for Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile is her autobiographical account of life before and during World War II. The book does more than relate the day-to-day experience of living in stalls at the Tanforan Racetrack, the assembly center just south of San Francisco, and in the Topaz, Utah, internment camp. It tells the story of the courage and strength displayed by those who were interned.
9780295806532
2014050122
Uchida, Yoshiko.
Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.)
Central Utah Relocation Center.
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Japanese Americans--California--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
Electronic Books.
D769 / .D474 2015