Inouye, Karen M.,  1964- <br/><br/>
The long afterlife of Nikkei wartime incarceration /Karen M. Inouye. 

 - Stanford, California :  Stanford University Press,  (c)2016. 
 - 1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) :  illustrations. 
 - Asian America .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : unearthing the past in the present --  Knowledge production as recasting experience --  Personal disclosure as a catalyst for empathetic agency --  Canadian redress as ambivalent transnationality --  Hakomite and the cultivation of empathy as activism --  Retroactive diplomas and the value of education. 
<br/><br/> This work re-examines the history of imprisonment of U.S. and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. It explores how historical events can linger in individual and collective memory and then crystallize in powerful moments of political engagement. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781503600560 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016028417 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.<br/>Political prisoners--Effect of imprisonment on--United States.<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States.<br/>Japanese Americans--Political activity--History.<br/>Collective memory--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D769  / .L664 2016