BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:events.uid.871@www.discovernikkei.org DTSTART:20060520T000000Z DTEND:20060520T000000Z DESCRIPTION:Sansei Legacy Project is happy and proud to recognize the publ ication of two new books by Sansei authors\n\nJohn Hamamura - <i><b>Color of the Sea</b></i>\nShizue Seigel - <i><b>In Good Conscience: Supporting J apanese Americans During the Internment</b></i>\n\nMeet the authors: Prese ntations\; Q&A\; Discussion\; Book sales and signing\; Light refreshments\ n\nSaturday\, May 20\, 1-4 pm\n\nBuena Vista United Methodist Church\n2311 Buena Vista Avenue\nAlameda\, CA 94501\n\nHave a wonderful time reconnect ing with old friends and making new ones. We welcome all Nikkei\, their f amilies\, friends and allies.\n\nRSVP: 510-236-5297\n\n<!--break-->\n----- --------------------------------------------------------------\nColor of t he Sea a novel by John Hamamura\n\nComing of age in the 1930s and 40s\, Sa m\, a Kibei\, feels the pull of his native homeland\, the lure of the anci ent martial arts training that has shaped his character\, and the mother a nd siblings he left back home in Japan. But his adolescence in Hawaii and young adulthood in California have also given him a taste for American lif e\, most notably in the personification of Keiko\, a Nisei girl whose hone sty and innocent love astound him.\n\nSam and Keiko’s relationship is to rn apart when she and her family are sent to Rohwer and he is drafted into the US. Army. Sam struggles to maintain his sense of identity. Can he be a samurai warrior and an American patriot at the same time? Does he have t he courage to fight a war and return with a heart still open to love?\n\nJ ohn Hamamura was born in Minnesota in the final year of World War II. His mother’s family was interned at Rohwer. His father was an MIS Japanese l anguage instructor at Camp Savage and Fort Snelling. Hamamura’s paterna l grandmother and aunt survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. Hamamura gre w up spending summer vacations at his grandmother's house\, not realizing until decades later that it was just two-and-a-half miles from Ground Zero . Hamamura’s debut novel\, Color of the Sea\, grew out of an exploration of his family history. Hamamura is a founding member of the Sansei Legac y Project.\n\nFor more information\, visit the author’s website: <a href ="http://www.JohnHamamura.com">www.JohnHamamura.com</a>.\n\n-------------- -----------------------------------------------------\nIn Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans During the Internment\nby Shizue Seigel\n\n Who stood up for Japanese Americans during World War II? What motivated th em? What price did they pay? How is their experience relevant today?\n\nTh e first thorough exploration of the few who reached out to Japanese Americ ans during World War II\, In Good Conscience pays tribute to the teachers\ , ministers\, activists and just plain folks who safeguarded their neighbo rs’ property\; followed their congregations into exile\; or quit good jo bs to teach in the camps.\n\nTwenty in-depth profiles and over 100 short e ntries draw upon interviews\, memoirs\, and historic documents and photogr aphs to \nilluminate the character\, background and value systems that tr ansformed ordinary people into extraordinary advocates for justice and com passion.\n\nShizue Seigel was born just weeks after the last internment ca mp closed. Both of her grandfathers were arrested by the FBI and \nincarc erated in Department of Justice camps. Their families were interned at Pos ton and Rohwer. She earned her first dollar on her knees\, picking strawbe rries. Having spent her formative years shuttling between Jiichan’s farm \, Baachan’s Skid Row hotel\, \nOccupied Japan and segregated Baltimore \, she learned early to seek out the common humanity that underlies divis ions of class and custom.\n\nIn Good Conscience\, published by AACP\, Inc. \, was made possible through the vision and perseverance of Harry Fukuhara and Sukeo Oji of the Kansha Project. It was funded by California Civil Li berties Public Education Program and by the generosity of members and frie nds of the Military Intelligence Service of Northern California.\n\nFor mo re information\, please contact: <a>InGoodConscienceBook@yahoo.com</a>.\n DTSTAMP:20240418T161428Z SUMMARY:Sansei Legacy Project: Meet Authors John Hamamura and Shizue Seigel URL:/en/events/2006/05/20/sansei-legacy-project-meet-authors-john-hamamura- a/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR