The Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act

Hisako Hibi has written:

'Peaceful painter' -- subject(s): Biography, Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, Japanese American painters, Japanese Americans, Painters

Chayym Zeldis has written:

'Seek haven'

'A forbidden love'

'Forbidden Love/a Can'

'Sparks'

'The geisha's granddaughter' -- subject(s): Concentration camp inmates, Concentration camps, Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, Fiction, Japanese American families, Japanese American women, Japanese Americans

'May my words feed others' -- subject(s): American literature, Jewish authors, Jews, Literary collections

Roger Daniels has written:

'Racism in California' -- subject(s): Race relations, Minorities

'Prisoners without trial' -- subject(s): Japanese Americans, History, Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, World War, 1939-1945

'American Concentration Camps: A Documentary History of the Relocation..'

'Concentration Camps'

'An age of apology?' -- subject(s): History, Restorative justice, Reparations

'The fierce-fighting Sioux turned Christian' -- subject(s): Siouan Indians

'Concentration camps, North America' -- subject(s): Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, Japanese Americans, Japanese, Canada

'Eleanor Roosevelt'

'Rice and bulgur quick-cooking processes'

'The decision to relocate the Japanese Americans' -- subject(s): Japanese Americans, Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

'American Concentration Camps: June, 1942-November, 1945 : Raising Japanese American Troops (American Concentration Camps : a Documentary History of)'

'Anti-Chinese Violence in North America'

'Essays in western history in honour of Professor T.A. Larson'

Chapter 1 of "When the Emperor Was Divine" introduces the characters of a Japanese American family living in Berkeley, California during World War II. The family faces the aftermath of the father's arrest by the FBI and their impending evacuation to a Japanese internment camp. The chapter sets the tone for the novel's exploration of the impact of wartime hysteria and racism on Japanese American families.