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Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II: Images by Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Other Governme Hardcover - 2016

by Richard Cahan; Michael Williams; Dorothea Lange (Photographer)


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The imprisonment of U.S. citizens: More relevant now than ever

In the spring of 1942, the United States rounded up 120,000 residents of Japanese ancestry living along the West Coast and sent them to interment camps for the duration of World War II. Many abandoned their land. Many gave up their personal property. Each one of them lost a part of their lives.

Amazingly, the government hired famed photographers Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and others to document the expulsion--from assembling Japanese Americans at racetracks to confining them in ten camps spread across the country. Their photographs, exactly seventy-five years after the evacuation began, give an emotional, unflinching portrait of a nation concerned more about security than human rights. These photographs are more important than ever.

Authors Richard Cahan and Michael Williams--noted photo historians--took a slow, careful look at each of these images as they put together a powerful history of one of America's defining moments. Their book consists of photographs that have never been seen, many of them impounded by the U.S. Army. It also uses primary source government documents to explain and place the pictures in context. And it relies on firsthand recollections of Japanese Americans survivors to offer a complete perspective.

The result is one of the first visual looks at the Japanese-American internment. The story is told with brilliant pictures that help us better understand this important chapter in U.S. history.

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  • Title Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II: Images by Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Other Governme
  • Author Richard Cahan; Michael Williams; Dorothea Lange (Photographer)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cityfiles Press, Chicago
  • Date 2016
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780991541867 / 0991541863
  • Weight 3.4 lbs (1.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 11 x 9.5 x 1.2 in (27.94 x 24.13 x 3.05 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Japanese Americans - Evacuation and, World War, 1939-1945 - Concentration camps -
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.531

About the author

Richard Cahan and Michael Williams have teamed up to produce twelve books. Most are based on long-lost archives or photographic collections. Called "the eloquent archival sleuthing duo" by Booklist magazine's Donna Seaman, they have written award-winning books about photography, art, and history, including two on Vivian Maier, the reclusive nanny whose discovered photographic work has become a worldwide sensation. They both live in Chicago.
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