Incarceration stigma made survivors reluctant to discuss their trauma

Evidence

Once the incarceration of Japanese Americans ended, most survivors did not want to talk about the trauma. “I could deal with hardships,” one survivor later explained, “but I could not deal with the psychological assault of being in a prison without being guilty of any crime…. I can understand why some Japanese Americans have never shared this episode with their offspring. One does not share a shameful experience very easily.” — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 188

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Recovery from trauma depends on others’ willingness to hear; Concealing a stigmatized identity causes more distress than revealing it — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 956; Denying or concealing a stigma causes more distress than acknowledging it — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 956
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Recovery from trauma depends on others’ willingness to hear; Concealing a stigmatized identity causes more distress than revealing it — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 956; Denying or concealing a stigma causes more distress than acknowledging it — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 956