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Legacy of Injustice: Exploring the Cross-Generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment

Legacy of Injustice: Exploring the Cross-Generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment

Nagata, Donna K.

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Series: Critical Issues in Social Justice

CognitionGeneral PsychologyGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 1489911200
ISBN13: 9781489911209
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: May 31 2013
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
At the age of 6, I discovered a jar of brightly colored shells under my grandmother's kitchen sink. When I inquired where they had come from, she did not answer. Instead, she told me in broken English, Ask your mother. My mother's response to the same question was, Oh, I made them in camp. Was it fun? I asked enthusiastically. Not really, she replied. Her answer puzzled me. The shells were beautiful, and camp, as far as I knew, was a fun place where children roasted marshmallows and sang songs around the fire. Yet my mother's reaction did not seem happy. I was perplexed by this brief exchange, but I also sensed I should not ask more questions. As time went by, camp remained a vague, cryptic reference to some time in the past, the past of my parents, their friends, my grand- parents, and my relatives. We never directly discussed it. It was not until high school that I began to understand the significance of the word, that camp referred to a World War II American concentration camp, not a summer camp. Much later I learned that the silence surrounding discus- sions about this traumatic period of my parents' lives was a phenomenon characteristic not only of my family but also of most other Japanese American families after the war.

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