Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience
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In the wake of wartime panic that followed the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, more than 100,000 Japanese Americans residing along the West Coast of the United States were uprooted from their homes and their communities and banished to internment camps throughout the country. Through personal documents, art, and propaganda, Only What We Could Carry expresses through words, art, and haunting recollections, the fear, confusion and anger of the camp experience. The only anthology of its kind, Only What We Could Carry is an emotional and intellectual testament to the dignity, spirit and strength of the Japanese American internees.
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A great moment of American history, this book tells of the internment of Japanese and Americans of Japanese descent beginning soon after the beginning of World War II for the USA. This did happen for the rest of the US including Hawaii. The book has many tales to tell. For the rest of the USA only a limited number of Japanese were inprisioned.
