{"product_id":"water-thicker-than-blood-a-memoir-of-a-post-internment-childhood-paperback","title":"Water Thicker Than Blood: A Memoir of a Post-Internment Childhood - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Uba\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I thought my life began in Chicago. I was mistaken. That is where my body first made its appearance, but the contours of my life...had their start much sooner.\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWater Thicker Than Blood, \u003c\/i\u003e poet and professor George Uba traces his life as a Japanese American born in the late 1940s, a period of insidious anti-Japanese racism. His beautiful, impressionist memoir chronicles how he, like many Sansei (and Nisei) across the United States, grappled with dislocation and trauma while seeking acceptance and belonging. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUba's personal account of his efforts to achieve normality and assuage guilt unfolds as racial demographics in America are shifting. He struggled with inherently violent midcentury educational and childrearing practices and a family health crisis, along with bullying. Uba describes boy scouts and \u003ci\u003eyogore\u003c\/i\u003e (community rebels and castoffs) with vivid detail, using these vignettes to show how margins were blurred and how both sets of youth experienced injury through the same ideological pressures. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWater Thicker Than Blood\u003c\/i\u003e is not a conventional story about recovery or family reconciliation. But itoffers an intimate look at the lasting-in some ways irreversible-damage caused by post-internment ideologies of \"being accepted\" and \"fitting in inconspicuously.\" It speaks volumes for the greater Sansei post-internment experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Uba\u003c\/b\u003e is an Emeritus Professor of English at California State University, Northridge, where he served as Chair of the Department of English and was a founding faculty member and Acting Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDisorient Ballroom\u003c\/i\u003e, a volume of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.9 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 03, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47635476316413,"sku":"9781439922583","price":50.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/RGRKeHhxN2l3VGFjV1dVUGRScjltdz09.webp?v=1780409084","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/water-thicker-than-blood-a-memoir-of-a-post-internment-childhood-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}