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An oral-history-based biography of a seminal Asian-American activist. The e-book strains Embrey's existence from her formative years within the Little Tokyo component of la, to her harrowing reports within the jap internment camps, to her many a long time of passionate advocacy on behalf of her fellow internees.
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My father made the pounding tools. Now they have machines that do that. The neighbors would bring their rice and have us pound it for them. My father would pound mochi for the whole neighborhood. The Kunitomi family learned to function in a bicultural environment, like most Japanese American families, relying on the Nisei to doing most of the mediating between the two cultures. Sue and her brothers engaged in American sports, including baseball, basketball, volleyball, and football, while their mother taught them Japanese games she remembered from her childhood.
These values, stressing the impact of an individual’s actions on the community, had as a consequence an emphasis on group orientation. Nisei were admonished about violating group norms, and the negative consequences of such a violation were nearly impossible to avoid. 27 Japanese Americans were able to sustain time-honored values, partially because religion in the new country reinforced generational and racial ties. Temples and churches were firmly rooted within Japanese America. For some Issei, including Komika Kunitomi, Buddhist organizations and the ethics of Buddhism played a significant role in their lives.
A lot of good that receipt did. We had bought my mother a short wave radio so she could listen to Japanese broadcasts. We turned in all our radios, so we didn’t have anything to listen to. We were even more isolated. After the Terminal Island removal, we really began to feel that we also were going to be moved; we weren’t sure where,” Sue said. ”30 Sue’s anticipation of her own family’s removal was confirmed by Franklin Roosevelt’s decision to issue Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. 32 The executive order did not specifically mention Japanese Americans, the West Coast, evacuation, or 42 / The Unquiet Nisei internment.