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Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Young Shi Nomura was among the 120,000 American citizens who lost everything when he was sent by the U.S. government to Manzanar, an interment camp in the California desert, simply because he was of Japanese ancestry.
- Sales Rank: #392015 in Books
- Published on: 1998
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .30" h x 7.90" w x 9.10" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 102 pages
From Publishers Weekly
A history professor, Stanley (Children of the Dust Bowl) does an admirable job of distilling the intricate story of the Japanese in America during World War II. At the same time, the author presents a highly personal portrait of Shi Nomura, one of the nearly 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry whom the federal government ordered evacuated from their West Coast homes to relocation camps as a result of war-provoked hysteria and hostility. The seeds for this prejudice, the reader learns, were sown early in the century, when anti-Japanese sentiment escalated to the point that schools were racially segregated in San Francisco and the Japanese government signed a "gentleman's agreement" to stop their citizens from emigrating to this country. Quotes from the perceptive, articulate Shi as well as numerous period photos underscore the ignominy of the U.S. government's wartime action and help make this volume a haunting, at times heartrending chronicle. Ages 9-up. (Sept.) q
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 5-10-In clear and fascinating prose, Stanley has set forth the compelling story of one of America's darkest times- the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. He has based his account on the experiences of Shi Nomura, who was sent to Manzanar in the deserts of eastern California when he was a high school senior. But the author weaves in more than absorbing personal details; he places the camps in a broader historical context, from Japanese immigration and the resentment it aroused to outstanding Japanese American service in the war. His meticulously researched volume is accompanied by numerous, fine period black-and-white photographs, many by Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams; and he makes judicious use of maps. This eloquent account of the disastrous results of racial prejudice stands as a reminder to us in today's pluralistic society.
Diane S. Marton, Arlington County Library, VA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Gr. 5-10. With the same combination of the personal and the historical that characterized Stanley's Children of the Dustbowl (1992), this photo-essay humanizes the Japanese American experience during World War II. Stanley focuses on what happened to one high-school boy, Shi Nomura, and relates it to the general events: the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the rising tide of war hysteria, the forced removals and the internment in camps such as Manzanar, the painful return to devastated homes, and the recent official apology. Drawing on interviews and memories of Shi and other internees, the author analyzes the racism that imprisoned Japanese but not Germans, and the inconsistency that allowed Japanese to serve in the army while their relatives were imprisoned without trial. The quiet memories bring the injustice home: how it felt to suddenly be labeled an enemy ("I had always thought of myself as the hero, the good guy") and to see the No Japs sign on neighborhood stores. The book design is handsome, with thick paper, wide margins, and lots of white space; and the black-and-white archival photographs by such renown artists as Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams document the bleak landscape and the individual heartbreak. The book ends with a bibliographic essay of sources used and people interviewed. Hazel Rochman
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good source of material to accompany a study of World War II
By Wayne S. Walker
Shiro (Shi) Nomura was the son of Hachizo and Tsuro Nomura who had emigrated from Japan to Hawaii in 1900 and then to Berkley, CA, in 1905. Shi was born in the United States, and the family finally settled on a farm southwest of Los Angeles at Keystone where Shi became a student at Banning High School and fell in love with Amy Hattori. But the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, changed his life drastically. On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9066, which resulted in the forced internment (it's internment, folks, not interment) of 120,000 Japanese-Americans, two-thirds of whom were United States citizens, in concentration camps throughout the western United States.
Shi and his family ended up at Manzanar, just south of the desert town of Independence in Inyo County, eastern California. Amy was sent to Amache near the town of Lamar in Colorado. Illustrated with copious black-and-white period photographs and numerous maps, I Am an American tells the true story of the Japanese internment by specifically following the life of Shi at Manzanar, where he lived with his parents, his older brother Shigeru and his family, and his older sister Sadae and her children; through his furlough work on A. T. Tjaden’s farm at Conrad, north of Great Falls, MT, and return to Manzanar; to his visit to Amache in a vain attempt to rekindle his relationship with Amy and final freedom after which he married Mary Kageyama.
On the one hand, we can partially understand the anti-Japanese hysteria because our nation was at war with Japan and, while the vast majority of Japanese-Americans were loyal to the United States, there were some spies and traitors, however few they might have been. On the other hand, there is no doubt that most of the mania was the result of simple racial prejudice that resulted in one of the saddest chapters in America’s otherwise mostly commendatory history. I am sure that there was enough blame to go around, but it is interesting that it was a Democrat administration and a Democrat-controlled Congress which allowed this to happen. There are some references to dancing, and the “d” word is used once by protesters to describe “Japs.” Otherwise, this is a good source of material to accompany a study of World War II.
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Dear Fellow Adolescents,
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In this book called I Am An American that I read is a really good book because it is for the kids at the reading level of 9-12 (ages to). If you wanted to know the story. Well in the story their is a yough boy and his family that were intered with others. Also in this story is based one a true one, it is almost like a biography. As I was thinking about this story I realized that is was a very educational it makes you think about the world itself. When I was reading some other reviews I saw one and it caught my attention and I had to write about it. It was about a girl who had experienced what went on in the book. As I was reading on in this review it said that the girl and her family were interned too, just like the boy in the girl in the review. The girl's name that was interned with her family was Shi Nomura. I think being interned is like you having to pack up all of your things and then moving out of the place where you were and then never returning. I think that is just like being interned because you can never go back. And then I started to read another review and it mentioned that this whole thing happened during World War II, and that was one of the worst wars that went on in the world years ago. They said that Japan and many other countries were over world order. "Freedom has a Tousand charms to show". I used this because the people that were interned probably thought that they were going to be free because it makes it seem like they were going to be free but they weren't, going to be free at all. I think that it was a good book because it tells how badly people were treated, it had said that it was a good book. Some people may say that it was not a good book because it might make kids think that when they grow up they will be treated that way. It also might make it seem that this is still going on. It also might make teens think that the world around them is unfair to different people (races). Then it might make teens feel that some people in the world are disrespectful to different people (races), and should be respect to them no matter what race the people are. And it could make them think that people have no kind of respect for others and instead of being mean to them. It is a good book however kids can read it, get an educational idea of their life and the world that surrounds it. I Am An American can get a teen or a child to start reading at the reading level of 9-12. If you by this book then you will enjoy reading it because it will tell you what went on in the world back then instead of now. If you read this book now you will think that "Life isn't the same".
Your Fellow Adolescent, Shanti Lipscomb
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
THEY DESERVE BETTER
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I read this boook because I had a history project all about Japanese Internment. Before I read this book I thought Japanese Interment was only about the Japanese in some camps. I didn't realize the injustice that we set upon these noble and great people. After reading this book I felt enraged at how the Japanese would have to sell or burn their beautiful and valuble items. I think they deserve so much more than a letter from the President. We should have a much better tribute toward them. I have always been proud of living in such a great state such as California, but I am not proud that they were the least tolerant of the Japanese.
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