In this Mercury News article, Jeanette Arakawa, author of The Little Exile, talks about her childhood experiences: being stigmatized after Pearl Harbor, the subsequent loss of her family's home and business, her time inside a Japanese American internment camp during WWII, and the impact this experience had on the rest of her life.
Check out this eye-opening article here, including a video of Arakawa reading a passage from her book: http://ow.ly/STcC30dOYJK