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Cargando... Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War IIpor Eric L. Muller
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a really wonderful book. It contains a number of wonderful color photos taken by Bill Manbo, an internee at the Heart Mountain, WY "relocation center." In addition to these photos are several longform essays, three by noted historians and professors, and one by another former internee at Heart Mountain. This is a great book to pick up for people who are unfamiliar with the Japanese internment camps set up during WWII. I thought that the histories were fair and balanced, and did a good job of describing the actual life in the camps. And of course the color photographs set this book apart from other histories of the camps. Highly recommended. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In 1942, Bill Manbo (1908-1992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. While there, Manbo documented both the bleakness and beauty of his surroundings, using Kodachrome film, a technology then just seven years old, to capture community celebrations and to record his family's struggle to maintain a normal life under the harsh conditions of racial imprisonment. Colors of Confinement showcases sixty-five stunning images from this extremely rare collection of color photographs, presented along with three interpretive essays by leading scholars and a reflective, personal essay by a former Heart Mountain internee. The subjects of these haunting photos are the routine fare of an amateur photographer: parades, cultural events, people at play, Manbo's son. But the images are set against the backdrop of the barbed-wire enclosure surrounding the Heart Mountain Relocation Center and the dramatic expanse of Wyoming sky and landscape. The accompanying essays illuminate these scenes as they trace a tumultuous history unfolding just beyond the camera's lens, giving readers insight into Japanese American cultural life and the stark realities of life in the camps. Also contributing to the book are: Jasmine Alinder is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she coordinates the program in public history. In 2009 she published Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration (University of Illinois Press). She has also published articles and essays on photography and incarceration, including one on the work of contemporary photographer Patrick Nagatani in the newly released catalog Desire for Magic: Patrick Nagatani--Works, 1976-2006 (University of New Mexico Art Museum, 2009). She is currently working on a book on photography and the law. Lon Kurashige is associate professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His scholarship focuses on racial ideologies, politics of identity, emigration and immigration, historiography, cultural enactments, and social reproduction, particularly as they pertain to Asians in the United States. His exploration of Japanese American assimilation and cultural retention, Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934-1990 (University of California Press, 2002), won the History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2004. He has published essays and reviews on the incarceration of Japanese Americans and has coedited with Alice Yang Murray an anthology of documents and essays, Major Problems in Asian American History (Cengage, 2003). Bacon Sakatani was born to immigrant Japanese parents in El Monte, California, twenty miles east of Los Angeles, in 1929. From the first through the fifth grade, he attended a segregated school for Hispanics and Japanese. Shortly after Pearl Harbor, his family was confined at Pomona Assembly Center and then later transferred to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. When the war ended in 1945, his family relocated to Idaho and then returned to California. He graduated from Mount San Antonio Community College. Soon after the Korean War began, he served with the U.S. Army Engineers in Korea. He held a variety of jobs but learned computer programming and retired from that career in 1992. He has been active in Heart Mountain camp activities and with the Japanese American Korean War Veterans. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This book presents a treasure trove of color photographs you could find in any family photograph: landscapes, posed family shots, and candid moments from daily life and special events and celebrations. But in the background of many are the guard towers, fences, and tarpaper barracks of the Heart Mountain World War II internment camp -- a looming presence that belies the smiles and frolics.
These photos are set toward the end of the interment because cameras were considered contraband for the prisoners at the start. A special decree had to be made to allow families to capture basic memories we all take for granted today.
The photographer has passed away, so the book is filled out with dry academic essays by various scholars and a short memoir by a man who stayed at the same camp as a child at the same time. One essay is an unpersuasive attempt to say that the interment wasn't so bad especially compared to what happened in other countries and that it was run by administrators whose racism was a bit offset because they generally had a progressive agenda in other areas. This comes after commentary about the civil disobedience stances taken by many of the internees and their subsequent punishment. Sorry, but I see people making the best of a bad situation, not thriving as they were before being torn from their homes, possessions, and careers.
Definitely still worth looking through the photos though. ( )