NCRR: the grassroots struggle for Japanese American redress and reparations
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Author: Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress
Editors: Lane Hirabayshi, Richard Katsuda, Suzy Katsuda, Kathy Masaoka, Kay Ochi, Janice Iwanaga Yen
ISBN: 9780934052511
Publisher: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 2018
400 pages, 8 pages of color plates
Editors: Lane Hirabayshi, Richard Katsuda, Suzy Katsuda, Kathy Masaoka, Kay Ochi, Janice Iwanaga Yen
ISBN: 9780934052511
Publisher: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 2018
400 pages, 8 pages of color plates
The most significant 20th century campaign carried out by Nikkei, or people of Japanese ancestry, was the quest for redress (an apology) and reparations (monetary compensation) for the 1942 mass incarceration of Japanese Americans. The National Coalition for Redress/Reparations (NCRR) was at the forefront of the community's grassroots movement for redress, which culminated in the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. This book is the first comprehensive account of NCRR's roots, history, and continuing impact over four decades. Key aspects of NCRR's campaign including outreach, orchestrating "Day of Remembrance" events, political alliance building, petitioning Congress, challenging redress denials, and promoting community activism, are all covered here.
NCRR: The Grassroots Struggle for Japanese American Redress and Reparations is also an innovative ethnobiography written by NCRR's participants that explains why so many people, from all walks of life, gave their time, energy, creative ideas, and moral support to the organization. It was precisely the struggle for redress that enabled the members of NCRR to fashion a revitalized sense of ethnic community and identity leading to collective empowerment, even as NCRR's members strove to reach out in solidarity to other communities that also suffered damages at the hands of their own government.
NCRR: The Grassroots Struggle for Japanese American Redress and Reparations is also an innovative ethnobiography written by NCRR's participants that explains why so many people, from all walks of life, gave their time, energy, creative ideas, and moral support to the organization. It was precisely the struggle for redress that enabled the members of NCRR to fashion a revitalized sense of ethnic community and identity leading to collective empowerment, even as NCRR's members strove to reach out in solidarity to other communities that also suffered damages at the hands of their own government.