A photo of the Minidoka Interment Camp, 1943
1. Pay careful attention to her trip to Japan, which immediately precedes your reading section for today. How does she feel in Japan, and how does that mesh with her emotional place in America?
2. What are the kinds of responses available to Sone's family or her neighbors after the attack on Pearl Harbor?
2. What are the kinds of responses available to Sone's family or her neighbors after the attack on Pearl Harbor?
3. Mae Ngai argues that immigration laws rendered Asian immigrants "unalterably foreign" and unassimilable to the dominant (white) culture in America. Do you see evidence for that argument in Sone's personal account?
4. In reading Nisei Daughter, it is useful to contrast the tone Sone used to describe internment originally in 1953, to her description in the preface to the 1979 edition (pp. xvi-xvii). What explains this difference? Why might she "remember" internment so differently?
5. Many have described the incarceration of the Japanese during the war as an aberration in American history. What do you think about that statement?
