| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 32.3

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Book Review

Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience. Edited by Lawson Fusao Inada. (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2000. xxiii + 439 pp. Illustrations, glossary, appendixes, bibliography. $18.95, paper.)

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 set in motion a series of events that resulted in the racially motivated arrest, removal, and internment of more than 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans. The story of this uprooting of a people and the breakdown in the American constitutional system that allowed it has been investigated, analyzed, and explained from several perspectives. Only What We Could Carry builds upon these previous studies by bringing together personal, firsthand experiences of those who participated in internment. According to the book's preface, the purpose of this "wide-ranging anthology" is twofold. First, "to further explore the complex thoughts, emotions, and personal histories of those affected by the internment," and second, "to use that exploration to understand more deeply the consequences of racial prejudice, to confront more fully the harm that it does and the strengths that it calls forth, and by increasing intellectual and emotional awareness, to help insure that such events cannot occur again" (pp. xii, xiv). . . .

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