Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)

Louis Fiset and Gail Nomura, eds. Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture-Book Series in Western History and Biography. 2005. xii + 348 pp. $25.00, paper.

The history of the wartime incarceration of persons of Japanese ancestry in North America is told often from a victim-oppressor framework; that is, the Nikkei (persons of Japanese ancestry of different generations in both Canada and the United States) were subjected to discriminatory treatment at ...

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