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    Isako Isako
    Isako Isako
    Isako Isako
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    Isako Isako

    By Mia Ayumi Malhotra

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    Isako Isako follows a single family lineage spanning four generations of female Japanese Americans to explore the chilling historical legacies of cultural trauma—internment, mass displacement and rampant racism—in the United States, and how it weaves together with current events.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlice James Books
    Release dateOct 4, 2019
    ISBN9781948579506
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      Isako Isako - Mia Ayumi Malhotra

      To My Many Mothers, Issei and Nisei

      Praise be to beef liver stew, to gravy biscuits

      and home-baked bread, to women

      in work pants and suspenders who worked like dogs

      in the packing shed, up to elbows

      in rose clippings. You fed us well, O goddesses

      of goulash and green beans, of Sunday dinners

      wrangled from the coop. For penny money

      and seamstressing, praise. For parsnips

      and sweet potatoes, praise. Even for the years lost

      to sharecropping and strawberries, hallelujah.

      You worked until the final hour then rose

      three days later, baby squalling on your hip,

      back to breaking canes, clipping hooks,

      hustling the men through lunch hour.

      No breaks, boys. Hallelujah to Pond’s Cold Cream,

      to curling rags and church bento socials.

      Praise to the nursery truck revving in the morning,

      the clank of steel pipes and boiler-

      house rumble. All glory to the Berkeley streetcar

      and Key Route electric train, the smokestacks

      of Richmond and foggy peaks of San Francisco.

      And because they’re what taught us to praise,

      glory to the roses run wild, the packing shed

      left to cobweb. Praise to the crowded horse stalls

      and half-built barracks of Rohwer, Arkansas,

      dusty sheets and muffled nights of Block 9-9-C,

      100. Sakai, Chu. 102. Sakai, Ruby. 103. Sakai, Kazue.

      O praise to the camp midwives, the Nisei girls

      shooting hoops and swatting birdies when their mothers

      weren’t looking. And to the college-bound coed

      who crossed the country, camp release papers

      in hand, hallelujah. Her truth marches on.

      WESTERN DEFENSE COMMAND AND FOURTH ARMY WARTIME CIVIL CONTROL ADMINSTRATION

      Presidio of San Francisco, California

      May 3, 1942

      INSTRUCTIONS

      TO ALL PERSONS OF

      JAPANESE

      ANCESTRY

      Living in the Following Area:

      All of that portion of the County of Alameda, State of California, within the boundary beginning at the point where the southerly limits of the City of Oakland meet San Franscico Bay; thence easterly and following the southerly limits of said city to U.S. Highway No. 50; thence southerly and easterly on said Highway No. 50 to its intersection with California State Highway No. 21; thence southerly on said Highway No. 21 to its intersection, at or near Warm Springs, with California State Highway No. 17; thence southerly on Highway No. 17 to the Alameda-Santa Clara County line; then westerly and following said county line to San Francisco Bay; then northerly, and following the shoreline of San Francisco Bay to the point of

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