Frank chin born in the usa

My review of Frank Chin&#;s book on the resistance, Born in the USA, is now published in the special &#;A Tribute to Miné Okubo&#; issue of Amerasia Journal, Volume , It is available for $13 per issue plus tax and $4 handling from: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, Campbell Hall, Box , Los Angeles, CA For more information, call () , e-mail [email&#;protected] or visit the center&#;s Web site.

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A story told in Born in the USA has journalists James Omura and Larry Tajiri prowling the hills of pre-war San Francisco late at night, dreaming about which of them would write “The Great Nisei Novel.” It would be an epic that spanned the immigration of their Issei parents and the appearance of the second-generation Nisei as a new breed of American.

Little did they know how war with Japan would soon interrupt that social progress and place them on opposite sides of Japanese America’s response to expulsion and incarceration: whether to cooperate or resist.

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Review of BORN IN THE USA: A Story of Japanese America, by Frank Chin
(Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp. hardcover, $; softcover, $)

by Frank Abe
Amerasia Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2,

A story told in Born in the USA has journalists James Omura and Larry Tajiri prowling the hills of pre-war San Francisco late at night, dreaming about which of them would write “The Great Nisei Novel.” It would be an epic that spanned the immigration of their Issei parents and the appearance of the second-generation Nisei as a new breed of American. Little did they know how war with Japan would soon interrupt that social progress and place them on opposite sides of Japanese America’s response to expulsion and incarceration: whether to cooperate or resist.

Frank Chin has devoted a quarter-century of interviews and research to bring just that book to life, and more. Although catalogued under “U.S. History,” this is a bold work of documentary fiction, a fact-novel, that evokes the cultural integrity of the Issei, the youthful optimism of “The Nisei Dream,” and what Japanese America might have become if not for World War II. In this narrative December 7th is not where the story starts; Pearl Harbor instead comes at the midpoint and represents “The Closing Papers” an

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