Living in Color
The Art of Hideo Date

Hideo Date (b. 1907) is a painter ripe for rediscovery. His art is characterized by sinuous line, bold color, fantastic images, and stunning technique; his life by courage and a single-minded pursuit of beauty. This book accompanies a retrospective exhibition organized by the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.

Nisei Voices
Japanese American Students of the 1930s - Then & Now

Nisei Voices documents and celebrates the lives of the first Japanese American valedictorians of California public schools in the 1930s. The students are called Nisei (pronounced "nee-say") which means second-generation children of Japanese immigrants.

In the 1930s Paul T. Hirohata first published the valedictorians' speeches in a book called Orations and Essays. Seventy years later, Hirohata's granddaughter, Joyce Hirohata, has updated and expanded her grandfather's work. In this new edition, she documents the valedictorians' lives and adds a collection of poignant photographs to the original 1930s material.

Only What We Could Carry
The Japanese American Internment Experience

Shortly after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were uprooted from their homes and communities and banished to remote internment camps. This collection of haunting reminiscences, letters, stories, poems, and graphic art gives voice to the range of powerful emotions with which these victims of wartime hysteria struggled. Included are stories of those outside the camps, whose lives were interwoven with those of the internees.

POSTON CAMP II, BLOCK 211

POSTON CAMP II, BLOCK 211 is the revised version of Jack Matsuoka's first book of cartoons to illustrate life in the detention camps in which thousands of loyal Japanese American citizens were forced to spend most of the years of World War II. Jack Matsuoka knows what he is writing and drawing about because he was a teenager who experienced the inconveniences, the ironies, the humor and the tragedy of being a citizen imprisoned for nothing more than ancestry. He has treated all of the many aspects of camp life with the understanding of a firsthand witness and with the wit of a talented humorist and artist. In spite of its lightness, the book is disturbing and provocative.