"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"-- Provided by publisher

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction - The Four Deaths of Henry Williams: Constructing Racial Narratives in the Pacific NorthwestRobert BaumanChapter One - The Ties that Bind: Hanford's Ancient Landscape and Contemporary Native PeoplesThomas E. MarceauChapter Two - "What is an American?" The Yamauchi Family, Race, and Citizenship in World War II Tri-CitiesRobert BaumanChapter Three - "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, 1943-1960Robert FranklinChapter Four - "To Better My Condition": African American Women in the Tri-Cities, 1940-1970Laura J. ArataChapter Five - "The Birmingham of Washington": Civil Rights and Black Power in the Tri-CitiesRobert Bauman and Robert FranklinChapter Six - Latino/as and the Continuing Significance of Race in the Tri-CitiesRobert Bauman and Robert FranklinOral HistoriesEllenor MooreWally WebsterAbout the AuthorsBibliographyIndex