From a Different Shore

Synopsis: Japanese Americans experience the costs and benefits of a proud heritage as an ethnically distinct American community, but with some unique features of great significance for all Americans. Alongside their proud heritage is the painful memory of the catastrophic ‘relocation’ to prison camps in 1942 which violated their human constitutional rights. Three families, together with Japanese American experts, tell the story of the subtle shifts in balance between the two parts of their identity, and the way that even today they suffer from racial prejudice and the belief that because they look different they must be foreigners.
Series: United States in the Twentieth Century, The: Course D214
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocasette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.
Year of production: 1994
Availability: Off-air recording licence
Sale; 2001 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Subjects: Anthropology; History
Keywords: ethnic minorities; Japanese Americans; United States of America; World War II

Producer

Jeremy Cooper

Cast

Richard Maidment

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