Divided Destiny: A History of Japanese Americans in Seattle

by David A. Takami

This vivid and concise history traces more than a hundred years of Japanese Americans in Seattle, before and after the tumultuous events of the early 1940s, when World War II and the incarceration of Japanese Americans divided the community from its past and forced tens of thousands of people to uproot and start anew. Concentration camps at Minidoka, Idaho, and nine other inland locations were the crucible for postwar change and accomplishment, but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295977620
• ISBN13: 9780295977621
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Washington Press and Wing Luke
• Length: 93 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 8.5"