01 Mar / Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family by Yoshiko Uchida [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
The autobiographical account of a second-generation Japanese American woman growing up in Berkeley, California, and her family’s internment experiences at Camp Topaz during World War II.
During World War II, some 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry, many of whom were U.S. citizens, were stripped of their basic human rights and imprisoned in internment camps scattered throughout the Western U.S. When the war was over, not a single case of treason or espionage was ever found against a Japanese American.
Review: “Asian American Titles,” What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature, Gale Research, 1997
Readers: Young Adult, Adult
Published: 1982
By in Adult Readers, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Tags > Betrayal, BookDragon, Civil rights, Coming-of-age, Desert Exile, Family, Historical, Identity, Japanese American imprisonment during WWII, Politics, Race/Racism, War, What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature, Yoshiko Uchida