Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II

by Gary Y. Okihiro

Book Overview

During World War II over 5,500 young Japanese Americans left the concentration camps to which they had been confined with their families in order to attend college. Storied Lives describes--often in their own words--how nisei students found schools to attend outside the West Coast exclusion zone and the efforts of white Americans to help them. The book is concerned with the deeds of white and Japanese Americans in a mutual struggle against...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295996625
• ISBN13: 9780295996622
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher