 | Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II Subjects: World War 1939–1945 -- Japanese Americans; Japanese American college students -- Social conditions; Japanese American college students -- Economic conditions; Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations; During World War II over 5,500 young Japanese Americans left the concentration camps to which they had been confined with their families in order to attend college. Storied Lives describes--often in their own words--how nisei students found schools to attend outside the West Coast exclusion zone and the efforts of white Americans to help them. The book is concerned with the deeds of white and Japanese Americans in a mutual struggle against racism, and argues that Asian American studies--indeed, race relations as a whole--will benefit from an understanding not only of racism but also of its opposition, antiracism. |
