![]() ![]() To fully understand her interview, here are some definitions and explanations: In fact, she has traveled throughout America in order to educate people so something like this doesn’t happen again. However, don’t expect anger and bitterness–because she has come to terms with what happened. In this interview, she explains what happened to her and her family and her hindsights about the experience as well as how it relates to the racist environment in America today. The fear was the Japanese and Japanese-Americans in America would sabotage America’s war efforts. ![]() In total, 120,000 Japanese suffered from the same treatment. Jeanne was seven when her family was uprooted from Long Beach and placed in the Manzanar internment camp in the High Sierra of California. It is one of the books that many American schools use to help students understand racism and prejudice. It chronicles her family’s internment during World War II. This book was written in the 1970s when Jeanne was thirty-seven. She is the author of Farewell to Manzanar. This episode’s guest is Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston. ![]()
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