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Breaking the Silence Paperback - 1995

by Yasuko I. Takezawa


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This book is a unique interpretation of how wartime internment and the movement for redress affected Japanese Americans. Yasuko I. Takezawa, a Japanese national who has lived in the Japanese American community as well as in the larger American society, has a distinctive vantage point from which to assess the changing meaning of being a Japanese American. Takezawa focuses on the impact of two critical incidents in Japanese American history--the wartime evacuation and internment of more than a hundred thousand individuals and the redress campaign that resulted in an official apology and reparation payments from the U.S. government. Her book is a moving account filled with personal stories--both painful and joyous--told to her by Nisei and Sansei (second- and third-generation) interviewees in Seattle. Covering the period before, during, and after World War II, Takezawa captures the internal struggles of the Japanese American community in seeking redress. She shows how its members have handled identity crises caused by racial discrimination, evacuation and internment, and the long-prevalent American ideology of the melting pot. She is particularly skillful in comparing the differences between the generations as they sorted out their experiences and reconfirmed their ethnic identity through the redress movement.

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On November 25, 1978, Thanksgiving weekend, more than two thousand Japanese Americans and their friends gathered at the Puyallup Fairgrounds near Seattle, Washington, to reenact and remember the evacuation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

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  • Title Breaking the Silence
  • Author Yasuko I. Takezawa
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca
  • Date 1995-02-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780801481819 / 0801481813
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.58 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.47 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1250
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94029600
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.895

About the author

Yasuko I. Takezawa is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.

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