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The latest volume in the NCTE High School Literature Series offers new ways to talk and teach about the incarceration of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II through the selected works of three critically acclaimed Japanese American authors: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s memoir Farewell to Manzanar, along with its film version; a sampling of Lawson Fusao Inada’s poetry; and a selection of Hisaye Yamamoto’s short stories. All three authors were children or young adults during World War II, and their texts powerfully speak to how being racially profiled, forcibly removed from their homes, and then detained in racially segregated concentration camps for nearly three years forever changed their lives. This volume features author biographies, guiding questions, resources for teachers, and student-centred activities that incorporate digital literacy. Assignments and discussion questions that appeal to multiple learning styles are included. With several student work samples as models, each chapter includes practical ideas for the classroom, including connecting common themes in Japanese American literature about World War II to contemporary social issues such as civil rights, identity, immigration reform, and race relations.

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"Thank you, NCTE, for publishing this important volume of literature!"""" - Tricia Ebarvia"

Thank you, NCTE, for publishing this important volume of literature! - Tricia Ebarvia

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Rachel Endo is Founding Dean of the School of Education and a Professor at the University of Washington Tacoma. She holds a Ph.D. in Language and Literacy Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A nationally recognized scholar of Asian/American education, bilingual education, critical/decolonizing approaches to multicultural education, immigrant/refugee education, and urban teacher education, Endo is the author of multiple publications that have appeared in high-impact journals in education such as Bilingual Research Journal, Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, Education & Urban Society, Equity & Excellence in Education, Journal of Language, Identity & Education, The Urban Review, Urban Education, among others. In 2017, the National Association for Multicultural Education awarded her with the Carl A. Grant Award for Research Excellence. She has received dozens of other awards and recognitions for her commitment to equity and excellence in education.

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