reflections of a Japanese American
Author: Bill Hosokawa
ISBN: 9780870815133
From vividly recollected personal experiences, Out of the Frying Pan is a fresh, personal account of one of the greatest injustices in 20th-century U.S. history. Bill Hosokawa, this country's leading Japanese American journalist, tells how he, his wife, and their infant child were herded into a U.S. World War II relocation camp in Wyoming.After graduating from the University of Washington, the young Bill Hosokawa gained prominence as a reporter for the Singapore Herald, the Shanghai Times, and the Far Eastern Review. However, his interment during World War II abruptly put his budding journalism career on indefinite hold. To his good fortune, he found work at The Denver Post after the war, where he rose through the ranks from copy desk chief to associate editor and editor of the editorial page. And despite his temporary imprisonment, Hosokawa managed begin publishing his popular "From the Frying Pan" column (many selections are reproduced within this volume) in the Pacific Citizen in th
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publish Date: 1998-12
Subjects: Hosokawa, Bill, Japanese Americans - Biography, Japanese Americans - Cultural assimilation, Japanese Americans - Ethnic identity, Japanese Americans - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, Japanese Americans - Social conditions, Japanese Americans/ Biography, Japanese Americans/ Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, Japanese Americans/ Social conditions, Japanese Americans, United States - Race relations, United States, Biography & Autobiography / General, Biography & Autobiography / Historical, History / Military / World War II, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Social Science / Minority Studies, Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies
This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Asian/Pacific Islander American (APIA))