Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance: Voices from the Hanford Region

Mid-Columbia region history mirrors common American West multiracial narratives, but with important nuances. In Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance, the third Hanford Histories volume, four scholars draw from oral histories to focus on the experiences of non-white groups such as the Wanapum, Chinese immigrants, World War II Japanese incarcerees, and African American migrant workers from the South, whose lives were deeply impacted by the Hanford Site. Linked in ways they likely could not know, each group resisted the segregation and discrimination they encountered, and in the process, challenged the region’s dominant racial norms.