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A. Hennebold
Citizen U.S.A.
9781429095563
Regular price $14.95 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Once in a great while an important artifact is suddenly recognized as being so valuable that it demands a wide and immediate audience. Citizen USA, from the permanent collection of the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is such an artifact.
The unpublished book was written in 1943 when the author, Charles Ferguson, was the Director of Adult Education at the Manzanar concentration camp where Japanese Americans were incarcerated. In words and photographs, the story chronicles the camp experience through the voice and perspective of a young sansei girl from Hollywood, California. She describes the routine of camp life as well as the fear and uncertainty about the future that she and her family face. At the book’s conclusion she wonders, “Isn’t America still democratic?”
Produced in the form of a photo album, the unpublished work was never forgotten by the Ferguson family. After the author's death, his wife Lois donated the book to JANM in 2003.
Seeing hard truths and difficult circumstances from a child’s point of view is more powerful than ever before. This story will resonate with audiences unimagined in 1943.
Manabi Hirasaki
A Taste for Strawberries
9781429093798
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Manabi Hirasaki was a Depression era boy, Japanese American World War II veteran, savvy entrepreneur, and a generous philanthropist before his death in 2012 at the age of 89. The son of a successful Gilroy, California farmer, Hirasaki vividly recounts his enduring relationship with the world of commercially grown strawberries and his rise to become the first non-family member to lead the board of Driscoll Strawberry Associates, the world’s largest commercial strawberry distributor. A pioneer in the cultivation of the long-stem strawberry, Hirasaki’s autobiography reveals the trials and triumphs of being a Japanese American during World War II, and the post-war boom of California’s agriculture industry. This memoir, written with editor Naomi Hirahara, is a vital history of a life devoted to the American ideals of equality, entrepreneurship, and community.
