TY - BOOK AU - Uchida,Yoshiko TI - Desert exile: the uprooting of a Japanese American family T2 - Classics of Asian American literature SN - 9780295806532 AV - D769 .D474 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Seattle, London PB - University of Washington Press KW - Uchida, Yoshiko. KW - Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.) KW - Central Utah Relocation Center KW - Japanese Americans KW - Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 KW - California KW - Biography KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Personal narratives, American KW - Electronic Books N1 - Originally published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1982; 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1072218&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -