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Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp
68 pp.
| Clarion |
November, 2002 |
TradeISBN 0-618-06778-7$$15.00
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4-6
Cooper's attendance at the 2001 Manzanar Pilgrimage, the annual gathering at the internment camp's former site, frames his narrative. While less detailed than its companion, Fighting for Honor: Japanese Americans and World War II, the book is still informative. Cooper uses the term evacuation rather than internment, but the text is clear that relocation was forced and residents were imprisoned. Websites. Bib., ind.