Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
BornJeanne Wakatsuki
(1934-09-26) September 26, 1934 (age 89)
Inglewood, California, U.S.
Alma materSan Jose State University
Notable worksFarewell to Manzanar
SpouseJames D. Houston

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (born September 26, 1934) is an American writer. Her writings primarily focus on ethnic identity formation in the United States of America. She is best known for her

internment camps
.

Biography

Houston was born in Inglewood, California, on September 26, 1934, attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School for three years and graduated from James Lick High School in San Jose. She was the youngest of four boys and six girls in the Wakatsuki family.[1]

For the first seven years she experienced a normal childhood. She lived in

San José State University) where she studied sociology and journalism and participated in the marching band's flag team.[4][5] She met her husband James D. Houston
there, and they married in 1957. Jeanne later decided to tell her story about the time she spent in Manzanar in Farewell to Manzanar, co-authored by her husband, in 1972. Ten years after their marriage, in 1967, Jeanne gave birth to a girl. Six years later she gave birth to twins.

Jeanne has received many awards for her writing as well as her influence, and for being a voice for Japanese American women. A partial list of her awards can be found at https://www.californiamuseum.org/inductee/jeanne-wakatsuki-houston

Other publications include Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder (1984) with Paul G. Hensler as co-author, and Beyond Manzanar and Other Views of Asian-American Womanhood (1985).

Farewell to Manzanar

A photo from the set of the 1976 film of Farewell to Manzanar

In her book

television movie in 1976, starring Nobu McCarthy, who portrayed both Houston as well as her mother in the film.[6]

Distribution

In an effort to educate Californians about the experiences of Japanese Americans who were imprisoned during World War II, the book and movie were distributed in 2002 as part of a kit to approximately 8,500 public elementary and secondary schools and 1,500 public libraries in California. The kit also included study guides tailored to the book, and a video teaching guide. Today, Farewell to Manzanar has sold over one million copies. [7]

See also

  • List of Asian American writers

References

  1. ^ "Discover Nikkei: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston". DiscoverNikkei.org. 2007-01-09. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
  2. ^ Houston, Jeanne
  3. ^ "FarewellBook"
  4. ^
    ISBN 0-553-27258-6
    .
  5. ^ "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1999, San Jose State College, 1955". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  6. ^ "Farewell to Manzanar (1976) (TV)". National Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
  7. ^ Pacyna, Deborah (2002-02-19). "Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante Announces Distribution of 10,000 "Farewell to Manzanar" Educational Kits to Public Schools and Libraries" (Press release). Office of the Lieutenant Governor, State of California. Archived from the original on 2008-01-24. Retrieved 2008-01-12.

Wakatsuki Houston, Jeanne. Academic Interview. Nov. 2022

Critical studies

  1. "National and Ethnic Affiliation in Internment Autobiographies of Childhood by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and George Takei" By: Davis, Rocío G.; Amerikastudien/American Studies, 2006; 51 (3): 355-68. (journal article)
  2. "'But Isn't This the Land of the Free?': Resistance and Discovery in Student Responses to Farewell to Manzanar" By: Chappell, Virginia A.. pp. 172–88 IN: Severino, Carol (ed. and introd.); Guerra, Juan C. (ed. and introd.); Butler, Johnnella E. (ed. and introd.); Writing in Multicultural Settings. New York, NY: Modern Language Association of America; 1997. xi, 370 pp. (book article)
  3. "The Politics of Possession: The Negotiation of Identity in American in Disguise, Homebase, and Farewell to Manzanar" By: Sakurai, Patricia A.. pp. 157–70 IN: Okihiro, Gary Y. (ed. & introd.); Alquizola, Marilyn (ed.); Rony, Dorothy Fujita (ed.); Wong, K. Scott (ed.); Privileging Positions: The Sites of Asian American Studies. Pullman: Washington State UP; 1995. xiii, 448 pp. (book article)
  4. "The Politics of Possession: Negotiating Identities in American in Disguise, Homebase, and Farewell to Manzanar" By: Sakurai, Patricia A.; Hitting Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism, 1993 Fall; 1 (1): 39-56. (journal article)

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