Kokomo Joe : The Story of the First Japanese American Jockey in the United States
ISBN: 9780803222793
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of Nebraska Press
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The first Japanese American jockey, Kokomo Joe burst like a comet on the American horse-racing scene in the summer of 1941. As war with Japan loomed, Yoshio OC Kokomo JoeOCO Kobuki won race after race, stirring passions far beyond merely the envy and antagonism of other jockeys. His is a story of the American dream catapulting headlong into the nightmare of a nation gripped by wartime hysteria and xenophobia. The story that unfolds in Kokomo Joe is at once inspiring, deeply sad, and richly ironicOCoand remarkably relevant in our own climate of nationalist fervor and racial profiling."


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