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Only answer if you have read a book called "Baseball Saved Us" That’s when Dad knew we needed baseball. We got shovels and started digging up the sagebrush in a big empty space near our barracks. The man in the tower watched us the whole time. Pretty soon, other grown-ups and their kids started to help.
Refer to your Baseball Saved Us book for a complete version of this text.

What do the details in this excerpt and from earlier in the story show about Dad?


A. Dad hopes to show others that the best way to deal with life's problems is to ignore them. B. Dad wants to give people a sense of pride and purpose because they have been treated unfairly.

Answer 1

Answer:

The study of World War II Japanese American removal and incarceration remains fresh and interesting, even though it happened decades ago Despite the best efforts of those who had been uprooted, deprived of unalienable rights, and held captive against their will for over three years, little redress was to be found for more than a generation. A partial and belated governmental recognition and rectification finally came, but its insufficiency further fueled a smoldering fire that had been burning for some time. The smolder became a literary conflagration as an increasing number of scholarly works and firsthand accounts were published, decrying the abuses of incarceration, criticizing euphemisms like “relocation,” and working to create a public sympathy and awareness of the injustices done to these American citizens. Prejudice and rectification are still the major themes of the most recent scholarly work, but a close reading of primary sources, from the imprisonment experience through the present day, reveals that those afflicted by this heinous ordeal and their descendants want the world to understand something else. The story of what happened to this victimized yet amazing people has been told. The sufferers want us to comprehend not just what happened to them, but what they did about it, how they survived in these camps, and what this perseverance says about their indomitable spirit. They want to be seen as transcendent survivors who displayed dignity and patience, and not as aggrieved victims.

Keywords: World War II, Japanese, American, Internment, Incarceration

Suggested Citation:

Smith, Colin, Survival of Spirit: A Social History of the Incarcerated Japanese Americans of World War II (December 7, 2015). Survival of Spirit: A Social History of the Incarcerated Japanese Americans of World War II, 2015, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3258732

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Survival of Spirit: A Social History of the Incarcerated Japanese Americans of World War II

Survival of Spirit: A Social History of the Incarcerated Japanese Americans of World War II, 2015