Setsuko's Secret
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Setsuko's Secret

Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration

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Setsuko's Secret

Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration

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As children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers knew Heart Mountain only as the place their parents met, imagining it as a great Stardust Ballroom in rural Wyoming. As they grew older, they would come to recognize the name as a source of great sadness and shame for their older family members, part of the generation of Japanese Americans forced into the hastily built concentration camp in the aftermath of Executive Order 9066.
Only after a serious cancer diagnosis did Shirley's mother, Setsuko, share her vision for a museum at the site of the former camp, where she had been donating funds and volunteering in secret for many years. After Setsuko's death, Shirley skeptically accepted an invitation to visit the site, a journey that would forever change her life and introduce her to a part of her mother she never knew.
Navigating the complicated terrain of the Japanese American experience, Shirley patched together Setsuko's story and came to understand the forces and generational trauma that shaped her own life. Moving seamlessly between family and communal history, Setsuko's Secret offers a clear window into the "camp life" that was rarely revealed to the children of the incarcerated. This volume powerfully insists that we reckon with the pain in our collective American past.

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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780299327880
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Foreword | Tom Brokaw
  4. Prologue: Setsuko’s Secret
  5. 1. The Issei: Or, Where It All Begins
  6. 2. Executive Order 9066: Forcing People Out of Their Lives
  7. 3. Forced Removal, Exclusion Zones, and Assembly Centers
  8. 4. A New Home in the Dust and Wind
  9. 5. Establishing Loyalties
  10. 6. Relocation
  11. 7. Resistance
  12. 8. The Nisei Units: Uncommon Courage
  13. 9. Ending the Exclusion Order
  14. 10. Moving Forward
  15. 11. Creating a Memorial
  16. 12. Acknowledging Wrongs
  17. 13. Preservation under Duress
  18. 14. Generational Trauma and the Model Minority
  19. 15. Uncovering Setsuko’s Secret
  20. Epilogue: Back to Where It Started
  21. Afterword | Irene Hirano Inouye
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. Glossary
  24. Cast of Characters
  25. Notes
  26. Selected Bibliography
  27. Index