Echoes of exclusion and resistance : voices from the Hanford Region

Bauman, Robert, 1964- (editor.). Franklin, Robert R., 1981- (editor.).

Summary: "Four scholars draw from oral histories to focus on experiences of non-white groups such as the Wanapum, Chinese immigrants, interned Japanese Americans, and African American migrant workers, whose lives were deeply impacted by the Hanford Site. Each group resisted segregation and discrimination, and in the process, challenged the region's dominant racial norms"--

Record details

ISBN: 0874223822
ISBN: 9780874223828
Physical Description: x, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Pullman, Washington : Washington State University Press, [2020]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The four deaths of Henry Williams : constructing racial narratives in the Tri-Cities / Robert Bauman -- The ties that bind : Hanford's ancient landscape and contemporary Native Americans / Thomas E. Marceau -- "What is an American?" The Yamauchi family, race and citizenship in World War II Tri-Cities / Robert Bauman -- "I chose East Pasco because I didn't have no other choice" : African American migration, segregation, and Civil Rights at Hanford and the Tri-Cities, 1943-1960 / Robert Franklin -- "To better my condition:" African-American women in the Tri-Cities, 1940-1970 / Laura J. Arata -- The Birmingham of Washington : Civil Rights and Black Power in the Tri-Cities / Robert Bauman and Robert Franklin -- Latino/as and the continuing significance of race in the Tri-Cities / Robert Bauman and Robert Franklin -- Oral history interviews / Ellenor Moore, Wally (Wally) Webster.