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Chinese America: history and perspectives, 1992
by Hom, Marlon K., Him Mark Lai, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, et al., editorial committee
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- 1992
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San Francisco, California, USA
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CA$25.08
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San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society of America, 1992. Paperback. 237p., wraps, very good condition. Item Price
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A Pepper-Pod: Classic Japanese Poems Together with Original Haiku
by Shōson (Kenneth Yasuda); foreword by John Gould Fletcher
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- 1947
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San Francisco, California, USA
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CA$27.87
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Hardcover. xl, 125p., previous owner's ownership stamp on both front endpapers, sticker shadow on free front endpaper, else very good condition in an unclipped dj with a sticker scar on the front flap. Item Price
CA$27.87
Myths and facts about the Japanese Americans; answering common misconceptions regarding Americans of Japanese ancestry
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- 1945
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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CA$243.86
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Washington DC: War Relocation Authority, 1945. Pamphlet. 45p. staplebound pamphlet, some toning along spine, faint pencil circle around "Japanese" on the cover. C-2275. A defense of Japanese Americans by the very agency that had interned them. Item Price
CA$243.86
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Please don't!
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- [195-?]
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San Francisco, California, USA
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CA$104.51
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San Francisco: Japanese American Citizens League, [195-?]. Four-panel brochure, very good. Asks the reader to avoid using the term "Jap" to refer to people of Japanese background, comparing it to other racial insults. Undated, but mentions the service of Japanese Americans in the Korean War. "Why is 'Jap' not a nice word? Because it has a long, bitter history… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Japanese in California. Results following Alien Land Law enforcement. The State's attitude had ten conditions which provoked the law
by McClatchy, V.S.
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- 1925
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San Francisco, California, USA
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San Francisco: California Joint Immigration Committee, 1925. Pamphlet. 14p., 3x6 inches, minor toning. Cover text "had ten" has been crossed out in pen and corrected to make the caption read "The State's attitude and the conditions which provoked the law." Anti-Japanese tract reprinted from the Overland Monthly of March, 1924. Item Price
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These are our parents
by Morimitsu, George
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- 1943
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San Francisco, California, USA
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CA$348.38
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n.p., 1943. Pamphlet. 10p. staplebound pamphlet, evenly toned, very good. C-0799. Reprint of an article from Asia and the Americas, October, 1943, in which Morimitsu, then stationed in Mississippi with the 442nd, discusses the Americanization of younger Japanese Americans and their cultural disconnect with members of older generations like his parents, who were in an internment camp at the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Denson Tribune. Vol. 1 no. 7 (March 23, 1943)
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- 1943
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- Newsletter
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San Francisco, California, USA
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CA$348.38
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Denson, Arkansas: War Relocation Authority, 1943. Newsletter. 6p. mimeographed internment camp newsletter, 8.5x14 inches, horizontal fold, some passages underlined or circled in pencil. Updates on camp life, including work programs, sports, and weddings, plus a comic strip by Roy Kawamoto. Item Price
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Japanese American Relations. Causes which produce friction and the Christian remedies. A frank statement from California published in Japan
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- 1921
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San Francisco, California, USA
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CA$132.38
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San Francisco: Japanese Exclusion League of California, 1921. Pamphlet. 12-panel brochure, with some toning and minor handling wear. The League, founded by newspaper publisher Valentine Stuart McClatchy, viewed Japanese immigrants as preparing the way for a potential invasion. Subtitle refers to the fact that this piece was published in Japanese translation in Yomiuri Shimbun to explain the pro-exclusion perspective.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Becoming Americans: Asian sojourners, immigrants, and refugees in the western United States
by Knoll, Tricia
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- 1982
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- 9780960266449
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San Francisco, California, USA
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CA$20.90
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Portland, OR: Coast to Coast Books, 1982. Paperback. [xii], 356p., wraps, illus., wraps lightly edgeworn, old price sticker on rear wrap, else very good condition. Item Price
CA$20.90
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Relocation communities for wartime evacuees
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- 1942
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San Francisco, California, USA
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CA$209.02
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Washington DC: War Relocation Authority, 1942. Pamphlet. 13p. staplebound pamphlet, 8.5x11 inches, rust stains around the staples on front and back covers, a decent reference copy. Overview of the internment camps at an early stage. Item Price
CA$209.02
Passage to the Golden Gate: a history of the Chinese in America
by Chu, Daniel and Samuel Chu; Illustrated by Earl Thollander
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- 1967
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- 9780385059701
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San Francisco, California, USA
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CA$16.72
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Garden City: Zenith Books, 1967. Hardcover. 117p., profusely illustrated, later printing, label on front pastedown endpaper, else very good condition in an unclipped dust jacket with a tear on the real panel. Juvenile. Item Price
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New Neighbors Among Us
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- 1944
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San Francisco, California, USA
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CA$418.05
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[Washington DC]: War Relocation Authority, 1944. Pamphlet. 13p. staplebound pamphlet, evenly toned, ownership signature ("Westley-Gibson") in the corner, otherwise very good. C-1523. Illustrated booklet putting a cheerful face on the resettlement of West Coast Japanese-Americans in other parts of the United States, such as Nebraska, Illinois, and New York. Item Price
CA$418.05
American fighting men speak out
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- 1944
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Berkeley: Committee on American Principles and Fair Play, 1944. 19p. staplebound pamphlet, ownership signature in corner of front cover, otherwise very good. Collection of letters from servicemen, some of them from Japanese Americans serving in the 100th or 442nd Infantry, the rest from non-Japanese soldiers demanding that the contributions of their compatriots be respected, lambasting racism against Japanese Americans.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Uprooted Americans in your community
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- 1945
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San Francisco, California, USA
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Washington DC: War Relocation Authority, 1945. Pamphlet. 14p. staplebound pamphlet, evenly toned, very good. C-2252. Foreword by D.S. Myer states, "In coming months public and private agencies in many States will be working with clients of a new type. The new clients are Americans of Japanese ancestry who were evacuated in 1942 from their home communities in the West… Read more about this item Item Price
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Bamboo people: the law and Japanese-Americans
by Chuman, Frank F.
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- 1976
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- 9780891630135
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Del Mar: Publisher's Inc, 1976. Hardcover. xi, 386p., first edition, illus., previous owner's bookplate and pen notation on free front endpaper, else very good condition in like dust jacket. Item Price
CA$16.72
Chinese America: history and perspectives, 1987
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- 1987
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San Francisco, California, USA
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San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society of America, 1987. 187p., wraps, spine sunned, else very good condition. Inscribed and signed by contributor Sucheng Chan. Annual collection of historical articles. Item Price
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Akarui Bukkyo: Amerika yori Nihon Bukkyoto ni 明るい仏教 : アメリカより日本仏教徒に
by Kyogoku, Itsuzo 京極逸藏
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- 1954
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Fresno, CA; printed in Japan: Maha Maya Society, 1954. Hardcover. 265p. hardcover, very good, in mildly toned and shelfworn dust jacket. "Brilliant Buddhism: From America to Japanese Buddhists." Kyogoku was a Shin priest working within the Japanese American community. He spent the war years in the Topaz internment camp. Item Price
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The Oriental Americans
by Melendy, H. Brett
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- 1972
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San Francisco, California, USA
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New York: Hippocrene Books, 1972. Paperback. 235p., first wraps printing, spine sunned, else very good condition. Item Price
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Issei, Nisei, Kibei: Fortune Magazine reviews the program of the War Relocation Authority and the problems created by the evacuation from the West Coast of 110,000 people of Japanese descent
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- 1944
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San Francisco, California, USA
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CA$209.02
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n.p., 1944. Pamphlet. 20p. staplebound pamphlet, evenly toned, very good. Originally published in Fortune magazine in April 1944, updated to October 1944. Publisher not stated, but in some sources it is attributed to the War Relocation Authority. Item Price
CA$209.02
