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Days of Infamy: How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment by Lawrence Goldstone
aglclark's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
slow-paced
3.25
I think the book could've benefited from a "hook" to help you travel throughout. At times it was /super/ academic, especially with the expected audience being high schoolers. I wish the author had touched more on what Japanese internment looked like and the legal battles through that. I understand that the main focus of the book was how the US got to Japanese internment, but it felt odd for it to suddenly go from court case/injustice/legal battle/politics to "then internment happened, we need to carefully watch the government in the present, bye now." The ending was just very sudden in my opinion.
flattrash's review against another edition
The writing is very dense and doesn't show the same emotional tone as the audio.
melhara's review against another edition
informative
4.0
Asian-American history is not something that is often discussed in North American schools so this book offers a lot of great background to bridge that information gap. Although it is a relatively short book, it covers a great deal of information from the history of the earliest Asian migrants to the USA, to the issues of citizenship (in a society where people are categorized as being either "white" or "black", what category do Asians fall under, and what rights are they entitled to?), to the internment of Japanese-Americans.
As the title suggests, this book focuses primarily on the history of Japanese-American citizens but it also covered Asian-American history in general as well, since the deep-rooted racism towards Chinese, Mongols, Indians, etc. also impacted the Japanese-American community and further exacerbated the anti-Asian sentiment that ultimately led to the internment of over a hundred thousand Americans (and Canadians - let's not forget that Canada also played a part in this) of Japanese origins.
I learned a lot from this book as it included a lot of interesting (and racist) case laws and rulings that really make readers realize the entrenchment of white supremacy throughout North American history.
Audiobook Comments:
I listened to the audiobook (at x1.1 speed), which was well-narrated and captured and maintained my attention.
As the title suggests, this book focuses primarily on the history of Japanese-American citizens but it also covered Asian-American history in general as well, since the deep-rooted racism towards Chinese, Mongols, Indians, etc. also impacted the Japanese-American community and further exacerbated the anti-Asian sentiment that ultimately led to the internment of over a hundred thousand Americans (and Canadians - let's not forget that Canada also played a part in this) of Japanese origins.
I learned a lot from this book as it included a lot of interesting (and racist) case laws and rulings that really make readers realize the entrenchment of white supremacy throughout North American history.
Audiobook Comments:
I listened to the audiobook (at x1.1 speed), which was well-narrated and captured and maintained my attention.
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