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Dusselier has given us an excellent thick description of the ways that Japanese American prisoners of both generations used arts and crafts as tools of survival. Future camp studies will have to take her work into account. --Roger Daniels University of Cincinnati This is a remarkable page-turner of a book. Beyond the usual scholarly audiences from such disciplines as history and material culture, public historians, psychologists, art therapists, and anyone interested in the intersection of art, loss, and agency will find this book a meaningful read. -- Journal of American Ethnic History

This is a remarkable page-turner of a book. Beyond the usual scholarly audiences from such disciplines as history and material culture, public historians, psychologists, art therapists, and anyone interested in the intersection of art, loss, and agency will find this book a meaningful read.

Dusselier has given us an excellent thick description of the ways that Japanese American prisoners of both generations used arts and crafts as tools of survival. Future camp studies will have to take her work into account. --Roger Daniels University of Cincinnati (02/25/2008)

"""Dusselier has given us an excellent thick description of the ways that Japanese American prisoners of both generations used arts and crafts as tools of survival. Future camp studies will have to take her work into account."" |""This is a remarkable page-turner of a book. Beyond the usual scholarly audiences from such disciplines as history and material culture, public historians, psychologists, art therapists, and anyone interested in the intersection of art, loss, and agency will find this book a meaningful read."""

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Jane E. Dusselier is an assistant professor of anthropology and Asian American studies at Iowa State University. Her previously published works include Does Food Make Place? Food Protests in Japanese American Concentration Camps.

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