A monumental documentary. . . . Frank Chin is first and last a master story-teller. Some things cannot be cured by reparations or by apologies from the JACL, but, as Chin demonstrates, the stories can be told with passion and with art.

Western American Literature

This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Asian American studies. Recommended.

Choice Reviews

Frank Chin takes what would nornally be a cacophony of voices and carefully melds them into masterful stories.

Nichi Bei Times

This is a valuable book.

International Examiner

Although the main subject presented is wartime internment the interviews and documents provide insight into issues confronted by both first(Issei) and second(Nisei) generation Japanese Americans.

Anthropology Review Database

On May 11, 2002, the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) apologized to the 'resistors of conscience' who had refused induction while they and their families were confined in American-style concentration camps during World War II. Why? Bursting with passion, Born in the U.S.A. uses insiders' accounts of the resistors' lives to explain their cause and their persecution. This is an indispensable contribution to the literature on Asian America.

Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, University of California, Los Angeles