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- The Architecture of Confinement
- Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- The Architecture of Confinement
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Carceral Archipelago
- 2 A Network of Internment Camps
- 3 Prisoner-of-War Resistance
- 4 Land and Labor
- 5 A Military Geography
- 6 The Colonial Prison
- 7 Empire of Camps
- 8 Prison City
- 9 Recovery, Redress and Commemoration
- 10 Intersectional Sovereignty
- 11 Border Politics
- Select Bibliography
- Index
9 - Recovery, Redress and Commemoration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2022
- The Architecture of Confinement
- Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- The Architecture of Confinement
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Carceral Archipelago
- 2 A Network of Internment Camps
- 3 Prisoner-of-War Resistance
- 4 Land and Labor
- 5 A Military Geography
- 6 The Colonial Prison
- 7 Empire of Camps
- 8 Prison City
- 9 Recovery, Redress and Commemoration
- 10 Intersectional Sovereignty
- 11 Border Politics
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 9 examines the historical arc of sovereignty and national belonging through the physical sites created for redress and reconciliation at Manzanar. Like other traumatized populations, the move to redress the injustices of incarceration occurred at a temporal distance after the event, initiated in the USA mainly at the insistence of Sansei, the college-aged children of incarcerees, demanding to know what had happened in “camps.” This Nisei leadership of the postwar redress movement included many extraordinary “unquiet” women, at a time when the patriarchal structure of Japanese American communities prevailed. Sue Kunitomi Embrey’s legacy as thirty-year Chair of the Manzanar Committee is the creation of the National Park Service’s Manzanar National Historic Site.
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- The Architecture of ConfinementIncarceration Camps of the Pacific War, pp. 267 - 289Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022