![]() ![]() ![]() With no home to return to, the Wakatsukis are ambivalent about their new freedom to live again among racists whose "wartime propaganda - racist headlines, atrocity movies, hate slogans, and fright-mask posters - had turned the Japanese face into something despicable and grotesque." The imminent departure, freighted with the humiliation of three years of unjust confinement, puts Jeanne in touch with an indefinable ache which she terms "the foretaste of being hated." Rather than confront California-style racism, Jeanne's older sisters and brothers choose to move east to New Jersey. ![]() ![]() Pressed by a third, Mitsue Endo, a successful challenge to racial exclusion results in a landmark decision from the high court: "The government cannot detain loyal citizens against their will." Within twelve months, detainment ceases and detainees begin to return to their homes as the Western Defense Command begins to close internment camps. Two plaintiffs - Gordon Hirabayashi and Fred Korematsu - fail to force the government to rescind racist laws. With only 6,000 remaining at the end of 1944, the leaving of Eleanor, Shig, and the baby, as well as Woody's conscription into the army in August, creates gaps in Jeanne's family. Relaxation of anti-Japanese government policies allows more people to leave Manzanar. ![]()
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