Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Series Foreword Roger Daniels
Foreword Harry K. Honda
Introduction: Larry and Guyo Tajiri and the Pacific Citizen
Chapter One: The Early Years
1. "Sincerity/El Monte," Kashu Mainichi, June 9, 1933
3. "New Year's Day 1934," Kashu Mainichi, January 1, 1934
4. "Klieg Lights," Japanese American Courier, January 1, 1934
5. "Discriminatory Bugaboos," Kashu Mainichi, May 13, 1934
7. "As American Born Japanese View Their Role in the USA," Corpus Christi Times, March 1, 1935
8. "Inter-racial Marriage," Nichi Bei, June 24, 1935
9. "The Nisei: Queer People of the Pacific," Rafu Shimpo, December 2, 1935
11. "Japanese Farmers Suffer Losses in Cannery Strike," Rafu Shimpo, April 25, 1937
13. "The Worst Enemy," Nichi Bei, October 21, 1937
14. "Major Fighting is Over," Nichi Bei, January 1, 1938
15. "Japanese Spies," Nichi Bei, April 6, 1938
16. "State Primary Election Notes," Nichi Bei, August 28, 1938
17. "Nisei Writers and Fascism," Nichi Bei, August 18, 1939
19. "Name Unknown," Nichi Bei, October 18, 1939
20. "Lindy's New Role," Nichi Bei, August 19, 1940
21. "Race Prejudice," Nichi Bei, August 30, 1940
22. "A Nisei Writer, '41," Nichi Bei, January 1, 1941
Chapter Two: Wartime Columns and Editorials
1. "'TELEGRAM PHASE OVER!' U.S. Expects Nisei to Show Their Fealty in Action," JACD Newsletter, Dece
2. "Over 200 Japanese Held as Dangerous Aliens in New York's Ellis Island," Nichi Bei, December 31,
3. "What We Face as Citizens in the Present Crisis," Speech before United Citizens Federation, Febru
4. "Vagaries: U.S. Nisei Lack Own Folk Music," Pacific Citizen, June 4, 1942
5. "Nisei USA," Pacific Citizen, June 25, 1942
6. "Filming the Evacuation," Pacific Citizen, October 15, 1942
7. "Nisei USA," Pacific Citizen, December 17, 1942
8. "Segregating the Disloyal," Pacific Citizen, February 25, 1943
9. "The Negro and Evacuation," Pacific Citizen, March 18, 1943
10. "Mrs. Roosevelt Investigates," Pacific Citizen, April 27, 1943
11. "Relocation," Topaz Trek, June 1943
12. "Malice in Wonderland," Pacific Citizen, September 25, 1943
13. "Mr. District Attorney," Pacific Citizen, November 13, 1943
14. "The Jap Questionnaire," Pacific Citizen, December 11, 1943
15. "Racial Problems and Faith in Democracy: A Double Bond between Japanese Americans and Japanese C
16. "The Rocky Shimpo," Pacific Citizen, April 4, 1944
17. "The Bitter Harvest," Pacific Citizen, April 8, 1944
18. "33 Months since Evacuation," Pacific Citizen, November 18, 1944
19. "Death of an American," Pacific Citizen, April 14, 1945
Chapter Three: Writings in Mainstream and Multiracial Publications
1. "Democracy Corrects Its Own Mistakes," Asia and the Americas, April 1943
2. "Farewell to Little Tokyo," Common Ground, Winter 1944
3. "Racial Hysteria for Profit," New Leader, May 20, 1944
4. "Barriers to Acculturation," 17th Yearbook of the California Association of Elementary School Pri
5. "Grim Precedent for Attacks on Minority Groups," NOW, Second Half September 1945
6. "The Evacuation: Last Phase," NOW, First Half October 1945
7. "The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword," NOW, Second Half October 1945
8. "Plight of Japanese Canadians," NOW, First Half November 1945
9. "The Lost People of Tule Lake," NOW, Second Half November 1945
10. "Who Can't Be Assimilated?" NOW, First Half December 1945
11. "Secret War Role of the Nisei," NOW, Second Half December 1945
12. "There Is No Nisei Problem," NOW, First Half January 1946
13. "Nazis and the 'Yellow Peril'" NOW, First Half February 1946
14. "Hawaii: The 49th State," NOW, First Half March 1946
15. "Ben Kuroki's '59th Mission'," NOW, Second Half March 1946
16. "The Gentleman from Mississippi," NOW, First Half April 1946
17. "Japanese Evacuees Should Be Compensated," NOW, Second Half May 1946
18. "The Remaking of a Ghetto," NOW, Second Half June 1946
19. "The High Cost of Prejudice," NOW, July 1946
Chapter Four: Wartime Correspondence
1. Two Letters to Alan Cranston, February 25, 1942
2. Letter to Alan Cranston, April 14, 1942
3. Letter to Alan Cranston, April 25, 1942
4. Letter ot Carey McWilliams, June 15, 1942
6. Letter to Carey McWilliams, January 31, 1943
7. Letter to M. Margaret Anderson, March 8, 1943
8. Letter to M. Margaret Anderson, March 31, 1943
10. Letter to M. Margaret Anderson, May 22, 1943
12. Letter to M. Margaret Anderson, September 20, 1943
14. Letter to M. Margaret Anderson, November 23, 1943
15. Letter to Fred Fertig, November 23, 1943
16. Letter to M. Margaret Anderson, April 27, 1944
18. Letter to Carey McWilliams, July 31, 1945
Chapter Five: Guyo Tajiri: Out from the Shadows
1. "New York Vignettes," Nichi Bei, August 16, 1940
2. "Ann Nisei Says: Let's Decorate," Pacific Citizen, June 11, 1942
3. "Isamu Noguchi, Noted Sculptor, Casts His Lot with the Nisei," Pacific Citizen, July 2, 1942
4. "Experiences of Evacuation Provide Material for Literature," Pacific Citizen, January 7, 1943
5. "Mental, Moral Stamina Shown by Nisei in Relocation," Pacific Citizen, December 25, 1943
7. Letter to John B. Kitasako, December 28, 1944
9. "Ann Nisei Says: Relocated Evacuees Find Wider Horizons in East," Pacific Citizen, January 6, 194
10. "Experiences in Internment told in 'Citizen 13660'," Pacific Citizen, October 5, 1946
11. "Karen Kehoe's 'City in the Sun'," Pacific Citiizen, December 7, 1946
12. "What Price Slum Clearance?" Pacific Citizen, July 31, 1948
13. "They Knew What They Wanted," Pacific Citizen, August 7, 1948
14. "'Tokyo Rose' Goes on Trial," Pacific Citizen, July 16, 1949
15. "The Trial of 'Tokyo Rose'," Pacific Citizen, October 15, 1949
16. El Sur de la Frontera," Pacific Citizen, January 2, 1953
Illustrations follow page 188
Chapter Six: Larry Tajiri's Postwar Writings
1. "The Loaded Revolver," Pacific Citizen, December 7, 1946
2. "Nisei News Papers," Denver JACL News Bulletin, December 15, 1946
3. "Marshall and Nisei," Pacific Citizen, January 25, 1947
4. "A Time for Great Courage," Pacific Citizen, March 12, 1947
5. "A Film Hits Anti-Nisei Prejudice," Pacific Citizen, December 13, 1947
6. "Restrictive Covenants," Pacific Citizen, April 26, 1946
7. "The Decline of the 'Yellow Peril'," New Leader, June 26, 1948
8. "Governor Poindexter's Martial Law," Pacific Citizen, October 16, 1948
9. "The Story of Sessue Hayakawa," New Canadian, November 24, 1948
10. "Punishing a Legend," Pacific Citizen, October 8, 1949
11. "The Loaded Weapon," Pacific Citizen, February 25, 1950
12. "The Record Speaks," SCENE, March 1950
13. "An Afternoon in Seoul," Pacific Citizen, June 30, 1950
14. "A Sour Note in California," Pacific Citizen, October 21, 1950
15. "McCarthyism in the Elections," Pacific Citizen, November 4, 1950
16. "The Chinese Americans," Pacific Citizen, January 13, 1951
17. "Race Hatred Is a Business," Crossroads, January 25, 1951
18. "Classification by Race," Pacific Citizen, April 23, 1951
19. "Hate Films on Television," Pacific Citizen, July 8, 1951
Chapter Seven: The Later Years
1. "Ministry of Fear," Pacific Citizen, June 19, 1953
2. "The Bricker Amendment," Pacific Citizen, january 29, 1954
4. "McCarthy on the Spot," Pacific Citizen, March 18, 1954
6. "Warren: Growth in Stature," Pacific Citizen, June 13, 1954
8. "More Logical FDR had Selective Evacuation in Mind Signing Order, Pacific Citizen, December 1954
9. "Hope in New South," Pacific Citizen, Septimber 14, 1956
10. "The Foreign Language Press," Pacific Citizen, April 24, 1957
11. "Twain Meet in 'Sayonara' Drama," Denver Post, January 1. 1958
12. "Issue of Hawaiian Statehood," Pacific Citizen, March 14, 1958
13. "Denver Audience Will Help Garner Create a Program," Denver Post, March 12, 1959
14. "A Displaced Nisei in Amsterdam," Pacific Citizen, December 8, 1961
15, "Why 'Jap' is Offensive," Pacific Citizen, April 25, 1962
16. "Eleanor Roosevelt and the Nisei," Pacific Citizen, November 14, 1962
17. "Nisei Americans March for Civil Rights," Pacific Citizen, September 4, 1963
18. "Are you Being Played for a Sucker?" Pacific Citizen, October 2, 1964
19. "Meshiyas in Manhattan," Pacific Citizen, January 24, 1965
Afterword
Notes
Index
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