ERICA HARTH is Professor of Humanities and Women's Studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of numerous publications on early modern France, most recently, Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime (1992). She has also written personal essays on her experience of having spent a year of her childhood at Manzanar, California (one of the ten so-called relocation centers for Japanese Americans), where her mother was working for the War Relocation Authority, the administrative agency for the internment camps.

• Introduction; E.Harth PART I: PARENTS AND CHILDREN Another Spring; T.Suyemoto Legacy of Silence (i); M.Yamada Legacy of Silence (ii); J.Yamada Echoes from Generation to Generation; D.K Nagata PART II: FAMILY SECRETS Mixing Stories; S.D.Ikeda A Daughter's Need to Know; M.Mueller Return to Gila River; G.F.Brown PART III: WHAT WE TOOK FROM THE CAMPS Memories from Behind Barbed Wire; J.Tateishi Pictures from Camp; P.S.Hayashi 'Isamu Noguchi: 5-7-A, Poston, Arizona'; R.J.Maeda From Manzanar to the Present: A Personal Journey; S.K.Embrey Democracy for Beginners; E.Harth PART IV: FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE Ethnic Expectations: The Politics of Staging the Internment Camps; R.Y.Alfaro The Life and Times of 'Rabbit in the Moon'; C.Omori The Legacy of the Battle of Bruyeres: Reflections of a Sansei Francophile; V.N.Yoshimura Loyalty and Concentration Camps in America: The Japanese American Precedent and the Internal Security Act of 1950; A.W.Austin Nineteen in '98: A Conversation on Studying the Internment; J.Kohn & C.Lemon

'What is ultimately at stake...is the significance of this incarceration for all Americans...The treatment of Japanese Americans resonates especially strongly.' - Publishers Weekly '...a unique volume.' - Library Journal '...a seamless chorus that sings the core lesson of a historical error.' - Women's Review of Books