Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Photographs......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
PART I: PARENTS AND CHILDREN......Page 32
Another Spring......Page 34
Legacy of Silence (I)......Page 48
Legacy of Silence (II)......Page 60
Echoes from Generation to Generation......Page 74
PART II: FAMILY SECRETS......Page 86
Mixing Stories......Page 88
A Daughter’s Need to Know......Page 112
Return to Gila River......Page 128
PART III: WHAT WE TOOK FROM THE CAMPS......Page 140
Memories from Behind Barbed Wire......Page 142
Pictures from Camp......Page 152
"Isamu Noguchi: 5–7–A, Poston, Arizona"......Page 166
From Manzanar to the Present: A Personal Journey......Page 180
Democracy for Beginners......Page 200
PART IV: FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE......Page 216
Ethnic Expectations: The Politics of Staging the Internment Camps......Page 218
The Life and Times of Rabbit in the Moon......Page 228
The Legacy of the Battle of Bruyères: Reflections of a Sansei Francophile......Page 242
Loyalty and Concentration Camps in America: The Japanese American Precedent and the Internal Security Act of 1950......Page 266
Nineteen in ’98: A Conversation on Studying the Internment......Page 284
Appendix: Chronology of Events......Page 296
Contributors......Page 300
Suggestions for Further Reading......Page 304
B......Page 308
D......Page 309
H......Page 310
I......Page 311
L......Page 312
N......Page 313
R......Page 314
T......Page 315
Y......Page 316