Kokomo Joe : the story of the first Japanese American jockey in the United States /
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Author / Creator: | Christgau, John. |
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Imprint: | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 202 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11198500 |
ISBN: | 9780803222793 0803222793 9780803218970 0803218974 1282130935 9781282130937 9786612130939 6612130938 |
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Notes: | "A Bison original"--Page 4 of cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-202). English. Print version record. |
Summary: | The first Japanese American jockey, Kokomo Joe burst like a comet on the American horse-racing scene in the summer of 1941. As war with Japan loomed, Yoshio "Kokomo Joe" Kobuki won race after race, stirring passions far beyond merely the envy and antagonism of other jockeys. His is a story of the American dream catapulting headlong into the nightmare of a nation gripped by wartime hysteria and xenophobia. The story that unfolds in Kokomo Joe is at once inspiring, deeply sad, and richly ironic--and remarkably relevant in our own climate of nationalist fervor and racial profiling. |
Other form: | Print version: Christgau, John. Kokomo Joe. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009 9780803218970 0803218974 |
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