Born in the USA A Story of Japanese America, 1889-1947
, by Chin, Frank
- ISBN: 9780742518520 | 0742518523
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/10/2002
This unique oral history presents the Japanese American saga as told by those who lived through it. Frank Chin details the lives of first and second generation Japanese Americans before World War II with a rich kaleidoscope of images drawn from interviews, popular songs, novels, and newspaper articles. The heart of his story is the tragedy that followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Japanese American citizens lost their homes and property and were forced into internment camps. The author deftly weaves interviews and testimony from the Japanese American Citizen's League (JACL) with opposing, in-depth conversations with those who resisted the JACL's support for U.S. policy. This shameful episode in American history resonates deeply today as we witness similar erosions of civil rights in the name of wartime security.
| Introduction | |
| The Issei | |
| The Issei Are Here | p. 3 |
| American Bookshelf Presents: BANZAI! by Parabellum | p. 4 |
| Issei: Japanese American Conscience | p. 5 |
| Nisei Newsman | p. 11 |
| American Songbook Presents: Japanese Love Song | p. 13 |
| Sessue Hayakawa: Zen and the Movies | p. 14 |
| American Bookshelf Presents: A Japanese Nightingale by Onoto Watanna | p. 17 |
| Storytime for Children: Urashima Taro | p. 19 |
| Kibei-Nisei: "I Have Pictures" | p. 21 |
| American Bookshelf Presents: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau | p. 22 |
| Kibei-Nisei: Japtown | p. 24 |
| American Songbook Presents: I Want to Go to Tokio | p. 33 |
| Japanese American Conscience: Father and the Prostitutes | p. 34 |
| American Bookshelf Presents: The Story of the Caliph Stork by Wilhelm Hauff | p. 38 |
| Kibei-Nisei: Paris Hotel, Seattle | p. 40 |
| American Bookshelf Presents: Ford, The Universal Car | p. 42 |
| Kibei-Nisei: The First Car | p. 44 |
| American Songbook Presents: That Tango Tokio | p. 46 |
| Kibei-Nisei: Picture of the Japanese Navy Visits | p. 47 |
| Traveler | p. 49 |
| Japanese American Conscience: Higher Standards | p. 50 |
| The Volunteer | p. 53 |
| Storytime for Children: Momotaro, the Peach Boy | p. 61 |
| Nisei Newsman: "All Mothers Cook" | p. 63 |
| American Bookshelf Presents: Seed of the Sun by Wallace Irwin | p. 68 |
| Issei Poem: A Bright Morning after the Rain by Shisei Tsuneishi | p. 70 |
| Paul Tsuneishi: "Dad Was Writing Haiku All His Life" | p. 71 |
| Leader | p. 72 |
| American Songbook Presents: Cherry Blossom | p. 75 |
| On Civil Disobedience: White Man's Country | p. 76 |
| American Bookshelf Presents: The Pride of Palomar by Peter B. Kyne | p. 84 |
| Uhachi Tamesa: Early Seattle | p. 86 |
| Number One Hotel | p. 93 |
| Moving to Town | p. 95 |
| American Songbook Presents: The Japanese Sandman Song | p. 98 |
| The Nisei Dream | |
| The Nisei and the News | p. 101 |
| Hot Off the Press! L. A. Japanese Daily News | p. 102 |
| Nisei Newsman: Iron Chink | p. 103 |
| Hot Off the Press! The Nikkei Shimin | p. 105 |
| American Songbook Presents: Blinky Winky | p. 108 |
| Shhh! Hush! Hush! Japanese American Courier | p. 109 |
| Hot Off the Press! Japanese American Courier | p. 111 |
| James Sakamoto: JACL 1929-1930 | p. 112 |
| Hot Off the Press! Japanese American Courier | p. 114 |
| Nisei Newsman: Omura and Sakamoto | p. 115 |
| Hot Off the Press! Los Angeles Rafu Shimpo | p. 117 |
| Nisei Newsman: Tajiri Was a Shrewd Poker Player | p. 118 |
| American Bookshelf Presents: Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter | p. 122 |
| Hot Off the Press! New World Daily | p. 124 |
| Nisei Newsman: The Great Nisei Novel | p. 125 |
| Hot Off the Press! New World Daily | p. 126 |
| Nisei Newsman: "I'am like Popeye" | p. 127 |
| American Bookshelf Presents: The Great American Novel by Clyde Brion Davis | p. 129 |
| Nisei Newsman: Exploitation - Betrayal - I Attacked It | p. 131 |
| Hot Off the Press! Japanese American Courier | p. 132 |
| On Civil Disobedience: "I Knew about James Sakamoto of Seattle" | p. 134 |
| Hot Off the Press! New World Daily | p. 135 |
| Traveler | p. 136 |
| American Bookshelf Presents: Honorable Spy Exposing Japanese Military Intrigue in the United States by John Spival | p. 137 |
| Hot Off the Press! Rafu Shimpo | p. 140 |
| Japanese American Citizens League Northwest Conference | p. 149 |
| Traveler: "There Was a JACL Convention" | p. 150 |
| The Volunteer: Courting, Dating, and Radio | p. 151 |
| On Civil Disobedience: Golden | p. 154 |
| Leader: Brothers and Sisters | p. 163 |
| American Bookshelf Presents: Ford Manual Model T | p. 167 |
| Leader: "Frank Showed Her How to Make Pumpkin Pie" | p. 168 |
| Japanese American Citizens League Articles of Incorporation | p. 172 |
| Traveler: "I Really Didn't Have Any Ambition" | p. 173 |
| Fair Play Committee: Cosmopolitan | p. 174 |
| Hot Off the Press! Enter: "The Magazine for the American Born Japanese" | p. 176 |
| Shhh! Hush! Hush! JACL Convention in Monterey | p. 188 |
| Hot Off the Press! Current Life | p. 189 |
| December 7, 1941 - The Closing Papers | |
| Pearl Harbor Time | p. 195 |
| American Bookshelf Presents: Artillary at the Golden Gate | p. 196 |
| Fair Play Committee: December 7, 1941 | p. 199 |
| JACL Statement: by Joe Masaoka | p. 202 |
| Leader: "Around Pearl Harbor Time" | p. 203 |
| Fair Play Committee: "Hey, Pearl Harbor's Getting Bombed!" | p. 204 |
| Telegram | p. 205 |
| Boy from Nebraska | p. 206 |
| Hot Off Press! Japanese American Courier | p. 207 |
| American Songbook Presents: Remember Pearl Harbor | p. 208 |
| American Bijou Presents: Air Force | p. 209 |
| Boy from Nebraska: "I Felt Guilty Because I Was of Japanese Ancestry" | p. 212 |
| Fair Play Committee | p. 213 |
| Nisei and the Zen Man | p. 214 |
| Hot Off the Press! Current Life | p. 216 |
| Nisei Newsman: "The Age of the Nisei" | p. 218 |
| Shhh! Hush! Hush! Mike Masaru Masaoka: "Mr. JACL" | p. 219 |
| The Volunteer: "I Always Admired Mike Masaoka" | p. 239 |
| Nisei Newsman: "I Pinned 'Sold Down the River' on the JACL" | p. 242 |
| Hot Off the Press! Seattle Post-Intelligentser | p. 246 |
| The Volunteer: "I Was President of the JACL Chapter" | p. 247 |
| The JACL Anti-Axis Committee | p. 251 |
| Hot Off the Press! Pasadena Star-News | p. 253 |
| Shhh! Hush! Hush! The Japanese Question in the United States by Lt. Com. K. D. Ringle | p. 255 |
| Hot Off the Press! Seattle Times | p. 257 |
| "The Tolan Committee" | p. 259 |
| Project Director: "I Was Born and Raised in the Town Where John Dillinger Ended Up" | p. 261 |
| Hot Off the Press! Japanese American Courier | p. 269 |
| On Civil Disobedience: "I Could Take a Stand" | p. 271 |
| Nisei Newsman: "Tokie Slocum Was Rough and Gruff" | p. 277 |
| "The Tolan Committee" | p. 278 |
| Hot Off the Press! Rafu Shimpo | p. 282 |
| Nisei Newsman; "Voluntary Evacuation" | p. 283 |
| Hot Off the Press! Japanese American Courier/Seattle Times | p. 286 |
| Japanese American Conscience: From His Diary | p. 288 |
| Japanese American Conscience: Plot against Sakamoto's Life | p. 292 |
| Hot Off the Press! Independence Day, 1942 | p. 294 |
| Fair Play Committee | p. 297 |
| Fair Play Committee | p. 299 |
| Hot Off the Press! | p. 300 |
| American Songbook Presents: Shhh! It's a Military Secret | p. 302 |
| The WRA All-JACL Meeting | p. 303 |
| The Volunteer: "We Attended the Convention" | p. 305 |
| Shhh! Hush! Hush! War Department Military Intelligence Division | p. 307 |
| American Bookshelf Presents: If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes | p. 309 |
| Shhh! Hush! Hush! From the Files of the Project Director | p. 310 |
| The Volunteer: Return to Gila | p. 312 |
| The First Christmas in Camp: 1942: Manzanar, California | p. 314 |
| Christmas at Heart Mountain by Floyd Schmoe | p. 316 |
| Us and Them | |
| Shhh! Hush! Hush! Mike Masaoka: The JACL vs. Japanese America | p. 321 |
| On Civil Disobedience: "To Whom It May Concern" | p. 324 |
| Shhh! Hush! Hush! Japanese Located in Strategic Areas | p. 332 |
| Kibei-Nisei: Will You Volunteer for the Army? Will You Renounce Japan? | p. 337 |
| Veteran from Hawaii | p. 343 |
| War Relocation Authority: Application for Leave Clearance | p. 349 |
| Statement of United States Citizen of Japanese Ancestry | p. 354 |
| Frank Emi and Frank Inouye | p. 358 |
| The Volunteer: "Without a War Record I Wouldn't Have a Leg to Stand On" | p. 365 |
| Resister or Turncoat? | p. 367 |
| Assimilation: Another Word for Racial Extinction? | p. 368 |
| Hot Off the Press! The Pacific Citizen | p. 369 |
| Boy from Nebraska: Mission and Ploesti | p. 370 |
| Traveler | p. 372 |
| American Cinematographer | p. 374 |
| Leader: "Say, This Guy Knows What He's Talking About" | p. 378 |
| Block Head | p. 380 |
| Restoration of the Draft: 1944 | p. 382 |
| Leader: "That's When I Took Over" | p. 383 |
| Hot Off the Press! Rocky Shimpo | p. 385 |
| Nisei and the Zen Man | p. 387 |
| Fair Play Committee: February 24, 1944 | p. 388 |
| "No-No Boy" | p. 389 |
| Nisei Newsman: At the Denver Rocky Shimpo | p. 391 |
| Hot Off the Press! Rocky Shimpo | p. 392 |
| Err-Rocky Shimpo! | p. 396 |
| Fair Play Committee: March 4, 1944 | p. 397 |
| Nisei and the Zen Man | p. 398 |
| Hot Off the Press! The Pacific Citizen | p. 400 |
| Fair Play Committee | p. 401 |
| Leader: "You Got a Pass?" | p. 402 |
| Hearing Board for Leave Clearance | p. 403 |
| Fair Play Frank Emi vs. JACL Nobu Kawai | p. 415 |
| Letter to Kiyoshi Okamoto | p. 423 |
| Hot Off the Press! Heart Mountain Sentinel | p. 424 |
| On Civil Disobedience: "I Got Off at Spokane" | p. 425 |
| Hot Off the Press! Wedding Bells and Jail Cells | p. 426 |
| Letter from Kiyoshi Okamoto | p. 427 |
| Leader: Letter to a "No-No Boy" | p. 428 |
| Boy from Nebraska: A Visit to Heart Mountain | p. 433 |
| Song of Cheyenne, from a County Jail | p. 436 |
| Resister or Turncoat? | p. 438 |
| Fair Play Committee | p. 439 |
| Fair Play Committee | p. 440 |
| Nisei Newsman: "Mr. Yasui Isn't In Yet" | p. 441 |
| Fair Play Committee | p. 443 |
| Fair Play Committee | p. 444 |
| The Sixty-Three Men from Heart Mountain | p. 445 |
| Letter to Frank Emi | p. 446 |
| Nisei and the Zen Man | p. 449 |
| Little Brother | p. 450 |
| Leader | p. 451 |
| Hot Off the Press! Wyoming Tribune | p. 452 |
| The Volunteer: "Am I In, or Am I Out?" | p. 453 |
| Hot Off the Press! The Pacific Citizen | p. 455 |
| Leader: A Surprise Witness | p. 456 |
| Hot Off the Press: Wyoming Eagle | p. 457 |
| Leader: "Why Was He Up There?" | p. 458 |
| Hot Off the Press! Wyoming Tribune | p. 459 |
| Leader: "We Lost Our Case" | p. 460 |
| Nisei Newsman: "Vindicated as a Person, Vindicated in My Profession" | p. 461 |
| Hot Off the Press! Wyoming Eagle | p. 462 |
| Nisei Newsman: "It Was No Fun" | p. 463 |
| White Bigot, Where Are You? | p. 464 |
| Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee | p. 466 |
| Daughter of Zen Man | p. 468 |
| Hot Off the Press! Stars and Stripes | p. 469 |
| Leader: "The Proudest Thing I Ever Did" | p. 470 |
| Draft Resisters Pardoned, Convictions of Leaders Reversed | p. 471 |
| "No-No Boy" | p. 472 |
| American Cinematographer: "I Have a Story. It's a Beautiful Story." | p. 474 |
| Appendixes | p. 479 |
| Index | p. 495 |
| About the Author | p. 501 |
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