{"product_id":"colors-of-confinement-rare-kodachrome-photographs-of-japanese-american-incarceration-in-world-war-ii-documentary-arts-and-culture-published-in-for-documentary-studies-at-duke-university-9780807835739","title":"Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II (Documentary Arts and Culture  Published in ... for Documentary Studies at Duke University)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1942  Bill Manbo (19081992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. While there  Manbo documented both the bleakness and beauty of his surroundings  using Kodachrome film  a technology then just seven years old  to capture community celebrations and to record his familys struggle to maintain a normal life under the harsh conditions of racial imprisonment. Colors of Confinement showcases sixty-five stunning images from this extremely rare collection of color photographs  presented along with three interpretive essays by leading scholars and a reflective  personal essay by a former Heart Mountain internee. The subjects of these haunting photos are the routine fare of an amateur photographer: parades  cultural events  people at play  Manbos son. But the images are set against the backdrop of the barbed-wire enclosure surrounding the Heart Mountain Relocation Center and the dramatic expanse of Wyoming sky and landscape. The accompanying essays illuminate these scenes as they trace a tumultuous history unfolding just beyond the cameras lens  giving readers insight into Japanese American cultural life and the stark realities of life in the camps.  Also contributing to the book are:  Jasmine Alinder is associate professor of history at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee  where she coordinates the program in public history. In 2009 she published Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration (University of Illinois Press). She has also published articles and essays on photography and incarceration  including one on the work of contemporary photographer Patrick Nagatani in the newly released catalog Desire for Magic: Patrick Nagatani  Works  19762006 (University of New Mexico Art Museum  2009). She is currently working on a book on photography and the law.  Lon Kurashige is associate professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His scholarship focuses on racial ideologies  politics of identity  emigration and immigration  historiography  cultural enactments  and social reproduction  particularly as they pertain to Asians in the United States. His exploration of Japanese American assimilation and cultural retention  Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival  19341990 (University of California Press  2002)  won the History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2004. He has published essays and reviews on the incarceration of Japanese Americans and has coedited with Alice Yang Murray an anthology of documents and essays  Major Problems in Asian American History (Cengage  2003).  Bacon Sakatani was born to immigrant Japanese parents in El Monte  California  twenty miles east of Los Angeles  in 1929. From the first through the fifth grade  he attended a segregated school for Hispanics and Japanese. Shortly after Pearl Harbor  his family was confined at Pomona Assembly Center and then later transferred to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. When the war ended in 1945  his family relocated to Idaho and then returned to California. He graduated from Mount San Antonio Community College. Soon after the Korean War began  he served with the U.S. Army Engineers in Korea. He held a variety of jobs but learned computer programming and retired from that career in 1992. He has been active in Heart Mountain camp activities and with the Japanese American Korean War Veterans.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651917635637,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807835730","price":39.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807835739.jpg?v=1781845067","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/colors-of-confinement-rare-kodachrome-photographs-of-japanese-american-incarceration-in-world-war-ii-documentary-arts-and-culture-published-in-for-documentary-studies-at-duke-university-9780807835739","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}