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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Karen M. InouyePublisher: Stanford University Press Imprint: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9781503640504ISBN 10: 1503640507 Pages: 246 Publication Date: 05 November 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews""The story of Mary Kitagawa is an absorbing look at how history shapes our identities and inspires us to search for our deepest selves. In examining one life, Karen M. Inouye presents a layered and nuanced look at generations of people of Japanese descent in Canada and widens our view of the tragedy and injustice of Japanese incarceration during World War II."" —Pulitzer Prize Winner Marcia Chatelain, author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America ""A childhood scarred by racism and wartime incarceration turned Mary Kitagawa into a fierce advocate for human rights and social justice. Her profound and moving story provides an invaluable window into Japanese Canadian history and experience. At a time of resurgent anti-Asian racism and xenophobia, this book needs to be read."" —Christopher Lee, co-editor of Tracing the Lines: Reflections on Cultural Politics in Honour of Roy Miki ""Karen M.Inouye's book is indeed, as promised, a Nikkei Canadian life. Inouye's portrait of Mary Kitagawa's career offers an excellent touchstone for understandingthe collectiveexperience of Japanese Canadians: their unjust wartime confinement,and the long postwar reckoning that they went through with the trauma caused by those events."" —Greg Robinson, author of The Unknown Great: Stories of Japanese Americans at the Margins of History """The story of Mary Kitagawa is an absorbing look at how history shapes our identities and inspires us to search for our deepest selves. In examining one life, Karen M. Inouye presents a layered and nuanced look at generations of people of Japanese descent in Canada and widens our view of the tragedy and injustice of Japanese incarceration during World War II."" —Pulitzer Prize Winner Marcia Chatelain, author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America ""A childhood scarred by racism and wartime incarceration turned Mary Kitagawa into a fierce advocate for human rights and social justice. Her profound and moving story provides an invaluable window into Japanese Canadian history and experience. At a time of resurgent anti-Asian racism and xenophobia, this book needs to be read."" —Christopher Lee, co-editor of Tracing the Lines: Reflections on Cultural Politics in Honour of Roy Miki ""Karen M.Inouye's book is indeed, as promised, a Nikkei Canadian life. Inouye's portrait of Mary Kitagawa's career offers an excellent touchstone for understandingthe collectiveexperience of Japanese Canadians: their unjust wartime confinement,and the long postwar reckoning that they went through with the trauma caused by those events."" —Greg Robinson, author of The Unknown Great: Stories of Japanese Americans at the Margins of History" Author InformationKaren M. Inouye is Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at Indiana University—Bloomington. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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