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Isolating Citizen Dissidents
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Eileen H. Tamura
Published: 15 September 2013
...This chapter details Kurihara's time in the Moab isolation camp. After their arrest in the wake of the Manzanar revolt, Kurihara and the other members of the Committee of Five were taken to the jail in Bishop, and after a few days, to Lone Pine. Their prosecution was held at bay, however, since WRA...
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In Defense of Justice: Joseph Kurihara and the Japanese American Struggle for Equality
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Eileen H. Tamura
Published online: 20 April 2017
Published in print: 15 September 2013
... century. Born in Hawaiʻi to Japanese parents who immigrated to work on the sugar plantations, Kurihara was transformed by the forced removal and incarceration of ethnic Japanese during World War II. As an inmate at Manzanar in California, Kurihara became one of the leaders of a dissident group within...
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Resistance in Manzanar
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Eileen H. Tamura
Published: 15 September 2013
...This chapter details Kurihara's incarceration. Kurihara was among the Nikkei assigned to Manzanar, one of ten concentration camps for Nikkei, citizens and alien residents alike. Located at the base of the Sierra Nevada in eastern California, Manzanar was in a desert land of extreme temperatures...
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Afterword
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Eileen H. Tamura
Published: 15 September 2013
... to protest vigorously and vociferously at Manzanar. Fujita Joe Wilfred Kurihara Joseph Yoshisuke memory McGlone Robert Omura James reparations Hamada John Hohri William Sano Roy Ueno Harry Y Yoneda Karl Inose Makoto Kurihara Raymond Marubayashi Hanako high expectations distinctiveness...
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Beauty behind Barbed Wire
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Elena Tajima Creef
Published: 15 March 2022
... exclusively on the representation of race, class, and gender in the camp photographs and newspaper coverage of young women interned at Manzanar War Relocation Center in California. This chapter reveals the myriad ways that young Japanese American women were consumed with performing patriotism and citizenship...