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| .The Burning Horse |
| Thomas Heuterman |
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| "...America is the melting pot of all nations and all our forefathers, yours and ours, came across the same oceans....and we cannot see how you can claim any preference over us." —Japanese American Citizens League (p. 98) |
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Nonfiction / History
168 Pages
ISBN: 0-910055-26-2
Cloth: $27.50 |
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Thomas Heuterman traces the experiences of the Japanese-American communities of the Yakima Valley from 1920 until the Second World War. Combining personal histories and newspaper reports, he writes a moving account of persistent racial tensions propagated by the American Legion, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Hearst and other newspapers, as well as state and national politicians.
His work has been cited as an "important contribution" to understanding public attitudes toward Japanese-Americans. The Burning Horse offers a new perspective on the internment and dispossession policy, Executive Order 9066, which uprooted 110,000 Japanese-Americans and placed them behind barbed wire for the duration of World War II.
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| Thomas H. Heuterman grew up in Wapato, Washington. As the son of a city and civic leader serving the Yakima Valley, he derived an understanding of the value of many cultures and a particular appreciation for his Nissei neighbors. For thirty years, he taught journalism, the history of journalism, and American studies at Washington State University. He is retired from the faculty of the prestigious Edward R. Murrow School of Communications. |
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| Praise for Thomas Heuterman |
"In this well-documented account, Heuterman paints the nativist picture of American anti-Japanese sentiment during WWII as part of a pervasive exclusionary attitude that had been developing over previous decades. His in-depth research of the Japanese-American communities of Wapato and the surrounding area relates the parts played by the press, the Ku Klux Klan, government, the American Legion, and local business leaders in fomenting animosity toward Japanese-Americans along the West Coast, especially Washington State." |
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