Dusty Exile

by Catherine Embree Harris

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566472741
• ISBN13: 9781566472746
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Mutual Publishing
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

interesting perception

I found it bit ironic that an interesting story of Japanese-American experience in the relocation camp during the Second World War was written by white woman. However, she does certain amount of justice to the cause and I found her perception as an "outsider" looking in to be interesting. Her observations appears to be objective and fair. The book apparently seem to be written in two levels. In one level, she tells about her experiences personally while she worked as teacher in one of these relocation camps, Poston. Then at a next level, she basically tell the history of Japanese-American internment process and its aftermath. She is obviously very sympathetic toward the Japanese-Americans who she believed were treated unjustly.Overall, this book isn't very thick but I thought I gave a good insight of an experiences inside of these internment camps through a fair and objective pair of eyes. It may be that she was in a perfect position to observed all that, without getting too close to the matter at hand.

An Examination of Conscience

This is heart-rending and thought-provoking. This book evokes an serious examination of conscience to an injustice that we inflicted on our fellow Americans. Could it happen again? Yes, but let's hope and pray that it never does. God forgive us!

C-SPAN Review

We just heard this reviewed on C-SPAN and look forward to ordering and reading this book by an old friend in Honolulu.

WITNESS TO INJUSTICE

The author, Catherine Embrey Harris, has captured the essence of a painful, but likewise shameful, period in America's history.At a time in history when we unfurled 48-star flags with great pride, we incarcerated in excess of 48,000 non-Caucasian American citizens simply because of their Asian ancestry.German-Americans and Italian-Americans looked pretty much like the rest of us. Yet, no one really fought against or really cared that thousands of Japanese-Americans were hauled to the deserts and isolated areas of the United States. The pain, heartache, and grief described in this book will bring both embarrassment and disbelief to the reader. The author has, indeed, captured the heart-beat of an injustice that totally escaped the consciences of most white and black Americans.For a better understanding of what we are REALLY capable of doing to our fellowmen, please read it and pass it on.Don in Honolulu, USA Religion@prodigy.net