{"id":7459,"date":"1997-03-01T14:41:21","date_gmt":"1997-03-01T18:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=7459"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:35:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:35:06","slug":"farewell-to-manzanar-by-jeanne-wakatsuki-houston-and-james-d-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/farewell-to-manzanar-by-jeanne-wakatsuki-houston-and-james-d-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/Farewell-to-Manzanar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33356\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/Farewell-to-Manzanar.jpg\" alt=\"Farewell to Manzanar\" width=\"1017\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/Farewell-to-Manzanar.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/Farewell-to-Manzanar-542x800.jpg 542w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/Farewell-to-Manzanar-800x1180.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1017px) 100vw, 1017px\" \/><\/a>Jeanne Wakatsuki was just 7 years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Within months, her father was taken away by the U.S. government. Soon thereafter, the rest of the Wakatsuki family was uprooted and unjustly incarcerated at Manzanar. Camp life meant three-and-a-half years behind barbed wire, surviving imprisonment with 120,000 other Americans of Japanese ancestry scattered throughout most desolate regions of the American West.<\/p>\n<p>Houston began <em>Farewell to Manzanar<\/em> as a personal memoir, as a means of dealing with a past that was too painful and difficult to actually voice, except finally through the distance of pen and paper. The result proved to be a landmark postwar historical text, still taught in countless classrooms throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/what-do-i-read-next.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Asian American Titles,&#8221; <em>What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature<\/em>, Gale Research, 1997<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 1973<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6906\" title=\"Farewell to Manzanar\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/09\/farewell-to-manzanar.jpg\" alt=\"Farewell to Manzanar\" width=\"128\" height=\"181\" \/>Jeanne Wakatsuki was just 7 years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Within months, her father was taken away by the U.S. government. Soon thereafter, the rest of the Wakatsuki family was uprooted and unjustly incarcerated at Manzanar. Camp life meant three-and-a-half years behind barbed wire, surviving imprisonment with 120,000 other Americans of Japanese ancestry scattered throughout most desolate regions of the American West.<\/p>\n<p>Houston began <em>Farewell to Manzanar<\/em> as a personal memoir, as a means of dealing with a past that was too painful and difficult to actually voice, except finally through the distance of pen and paper. The result proved to be an landmark postwar historical text, still taught in countless classrooms throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/09\/what-do-i-read-next.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Asian American Titles,&#8221; <em>What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature<\/em>, Gale Research, 1997<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 1973<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,426,107,20,6535,31],"tags":[84,6608,22,58,10,5157,24,51,720,4476,28,29,45,4867],"class_list":["post-7459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-japanese-american","category-memoir","category-nonfiction","category-repost","category-young-adult-readers","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-civil-rights","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-farewell-to-manzanar","tag-historical","tag-identity","tag-japanese-american-imprisonment-during-wwii","tag-jeanne-wakatsuki-houston","tag-politics","tag-race-racism","tag-war","tag-what-do-i-read-next-multicultural-literature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. 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