History of Washington State and the Pacific Northwest

The wartime treatment of people of Japanese descent in the United States, documented in the readings by Monica Sone and Roger Daniels, hardly offered a great deal of promise for improved race relations after 1940. Yet, for a variety of reasons World War Two did mark a dramatic turning point in U.S. immigration and naturalization policy.

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Monica Sone, Nisei Daughter (1953)
Monica Sone’s memoir of growing up in Seattle during the 1920s and 1930s, and then being incarcerated at Minidoka and relocated to the Midwest during World War Two, is markedly different from the Matsushitas’ correspondence and poetry in several ways.

History and Literature in the Pacific Northwest

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