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Farewell To Manzanar By Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston was born on September 26,1934 in Inglewood, California. Houston attended San Jose State University. She was the first in her family to graduate and earn a college degree. While going to college, “she studied sociology and journalism”(Biography). During this time, while furthering her education in college she met her husband James D. Houston. James D. Houston was born November 10,1933 in San Francisco California. They married and eventually started a family of their own, having three children. He later passed away on April 16, 2009. Pearl Harbor happened on December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor is when the Japanese Bombed the U.S. at a naval base in Hawaii. This is was a major event in her life that influenced her to write …show more content…

All of a sudden, many Japanese people began to be perceived by other races of Americans as suspicious. Often, they were found guilty of crimes they did not commit based solely upon their race. As a result, rounded up many Japanese people and placed them in internment camps. Farewell to Manzanar is a story told by a girl Jeanne Wakatsuki who lived during this time period in a Japanese internment camp. She tells what life was like, the struggles she went through, and at times how to make the best of a terrible situation. While in camp she lives with her papa who was a fisherman along with her “two older brothers Bill and Woody, were his crew”(Houston). She also lived with her mama, granny, Bill and Woodys wives, and …show more content…

A cultural bias is when on culture believes they are better than the other culture.The book, Farewell to Manzanar, is based on a cultural bias against Japanese people. In Farewell to Manzanar, American see themselves as more superior and they fear everyone who is Japanese. Once the Japanese were freed from camp and returned to their daily lives it forever changes since many Americans had a deep hatred towards them. Farewell to Manzanar says, “Later on, in May, one of my sisters and her husband, leaving for the east, were escorted to the Southern Pacific depot in Los Angeles by armed guards, not because they were thought to be dangerous, but for their own protection”(Houston 128). Americans despised them and treated them so poorly once they returned that they needed

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