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Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman's Search for a Home in America

Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman's Search for a Home in America

Kawamoto, Judy Y.

Paperback

Series: Nikkei in the Americas

Biographies GeneralRegional: WestWorld War II

ISBN10: 1646424123
ISBN13: 9781646424122
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: Apr 17 2023
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman's Search for a Home in America offers insight into voluntary evacuation, a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II, and the lasting effects of cultural trauma. Of the roughly 120,000 people forced from their homes by Executive Order 9066, around 5,000 were able to escape incarceration beforehand by fleeing inland. In a series of beautifully written essays, Judy Kawamoto recounts her family's flight from their home in Washington to Wyoming, their later moves to Montana and Colorado, and the influence of those experiences on the rest of her life. Hers is a story shared by the many families who lost everything and had to start over in often suspicious and hostile environments.

Kawamoto vividly illustrates the details of her family's daily life, the discrimination and financial hardship they experienced, and the isolation that came from experiencing the horrors of the 1940s very differently than many other Japanese Americans. Chapters address her personal and often unconscious reactions to her parents' trauma, as well as her own subsequent travels around much of the world, exploring, learning, enjoying, but also unconsciously acting out a continual search for a home.

Showing how the impacts of traumatic events are collective and generational, Kawamoto draws

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