| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 202 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"A Bison original"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-202). |
| Contents |
The pocket baby -- Kokomo Joe -- Mister Charley -- Brilliant queen -- The Yankee Doodle boys -- Joltin' Joe -- The railbird witch -- The oriental invaders -- Lumberjacks and truckers -- Joe Btfsplk -- Miserable saboteurs -- Nipponese dynamite -- Hoover's lists -- Fibber McGee -- The whiz kid with the jive drive -- The Canadian mounties -- Chester from Gunsmoke -- Stargazers. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Kobuki, Yoshio, 1918-1997.
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Jockeys -- United States -- Biography.
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Jockeys. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Horse racing -- United States -- History.
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Horse racing. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Christgau, John. Kokomo Joe. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009 9780803218970 0803218974 (DLC) 2008037839 (OCoLC)245023395 |
| ISBN |
9780803222793 (electronic book) |
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0803222793 (electronic book) |
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9780803218970 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0803218974 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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