This book illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. A vast and ever-growing literature exists, first on the entry and settlement of Japanese immigrants in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, then on the experience of the immigrants and their American-born children during World War II. Yet the essential question, "What happened afterwards?" remains all but unanswered in historical literature....

Fascinating portraits illuminate the diversity of Japanese American experiencesFrom a title-winning boxer in Louisiana to a Broadway baritone in New York, Japanese Americans have long belied their popular representation as “quiet Americans.” Showcasing the lives and achievements of relatively unknown but remarkable people in Nikkei history, scholar and journalist Greg Robinson reveals the diverse experiences of Japanese Americans and explores a wealth of themes, in...

The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U. S. history. Greg Robinson not only offers a bold new understanding of these events but also studies them within a larger time frame and from a transnational perspective.Drawing on newly discovered material, Robinson provides a backstory of confinement that reveals for the first time the ex...

If alcohol is causing you problems, then alcohol is the problem. This book is a comprehensive volume on alcoholism and its causes, prevention, treatment, recovery, and long-term maintenance of the disease for the alcoholic who still suffers and his or her family. The Alcoholism Handbook provides you with the tools needed, a step-by-step process for treatment, recovery, and a positive-living lifestyle change that will heal alcoholics and their families. There are only two requirements to st...

THE AMAZING VOYAGE OF NEFERTITI, THE SPIDERNAUTMost spiders spin a web and passively wait for prey to come to them. Jumping spiders, by contrast, actively hunt by jumping to catch their food. What if a jumping spider was sent to the International Space Station? When it jumped, it would simply float. No one knew if the spider could hunt in a weightless environment.This nonfiction picture book for elementary kids chronicles the amazing voyage of Nefertiti, the Spidernaut to...

Not all failures are created equal.Hurry Up and Fail isn’t just about embracing setbacks. It’ll teach you how to fail faster and cheaper, speed up your learning curve, and eliminating the downside. You’ll read about famous blunders from Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Sara Blakely and others, and discover how a well-engineered failure can be the key ingredient to success.Get ready to Hurry Up and Fail!

Contributions by Taunya Lovell Banks, Devon W. Carbado, Robert S. Chang, Cheryl Greenberg, Tanya Katerí Hernández, Amanda O. Jenssen, Scott Kurashige, Greg Robinson, Stephen Steinberg, Clarence Walker, and Eric K. YamamotoThe question of how relations between marginalized groups are impacted by their common and sometimes competing search for equal rights has become acutely important. Demographic projections make it easy now to imagine a future majority population of color in the Un...

No-No Boy, John Okada’s only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and, upon release from federal prison after the war, is cast out by his divided community. In 1957, the novel faced a similar rejection until it was rediscovered and reissued in 1976 to become a celebrated classic of American literature. As a result of Okada’s untimely death at age forty-seven, the author’s life and ...

Parent Money Mindset shows parents how to turn everyday moments into calm, practical money lessons that help kids build healthy habits for life.Teaching kids about money does not come with a manual. Many parents are expected to prepare their children for a lifetime of financial decisions even though they were never given a clear financial education themselves. That can make conversations about spending, saving, earning, credit, and responsibility feel uncomfortable or easy to postp...

Uncovering the overlooked histories of Asians in the American South.In sharp contrast to the “melting pot” reputation of the United States, the American South—with its history of slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement—has been perceived in stark and simplistic demographic terms. In Far East, Down South, editors Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant, and Chizuru Saeki provide a collection of essential essays that restores and explores an over...

A fresh start. A second chance. A love worth choosing.Burned out after years as a Chicago ER nurse, Mae Sullivan escapes to Pine Harbor in search of peace, sea air and a new beginning. But even in a town this charming, starting over isn’t so simple.Jonah Sawyer knows every tide and dock along the harbor – yet he’s drowning under his family’s expectations, with a future mapped out that he never chose.When a snowy-nig...

On February 19, 1942, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and Japanese Army successes in the Pacific, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a fateful order. In the name of security, Executive Order 9066 allowed for the summary removal of Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japanese descent from their West Coast homes and their incarceration under guard in camps. Amid the numerous histories and memoirs devoted to this shameful event, FDR's contributions have been seen a...