Desert Exile The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family by Yoshiko. Uchida - October 1984

Excellent copy lightly read, no markings minimal scuffs on its covers interesting binding combination glue and nylons sewn/heated.. black-and-white pictures sprinkled throughout the book families and pictures of camp life, portraits..... Desert Exile is Yoshiko Uchida autobiographical account of life before and during World War II . After the attack on Pearl Harbor. first-person accounting of 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.very interesting I had a neighbor that was interred, and she would never speak about it.Spring of 1942, shortly after the United States entered into war with Japan,federal government initiated a policy whereby 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were rounded up and herded into camps.Incarcerated without indictment, trial, or counsel - not because they had committed a crime, but simply because they resembled the enemy...very interesting I had a neighbor that was interred, and she would never speak about it. Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family. Yoshiko. Uchida Series: Classics of Asian American Literature softcover binding good 160 pages, Pub.: University of Washington Press; Reprint 11th printing (January 1, 1982) 11th printing copyright 1982, ISBN- 0295961902, 978-0295961903 -:,about 6 x 0.4 x 9 in.-jacket painting design Daniel San Souci- subjects Japanese-Americans, evacuation and relocation, 1942 – 1945, world war, 1939 – 1945, personal narratives, autobiography, California, biography, internment, Yoshiko. Uchida, Paperback- .LAX Vespa,Los Angeles - maybe this will do it! -At least you know what you're getting into- Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it - in - transit. Desert Exile pb 4401 Biography 40 ZULU