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A tragedy of democracy : Japanese confinement in North America
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A tragedy of democracy : Japanese confinement in North America

Auteur : Greg Robinson
Éditeur : New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009.
Édition/format :   Livre : AnglaisVoir toutes les éditions et les formats
Résumé :
The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U. S. history. The author not only offers a new understanding of these events but also studies them within a larger time frame and from a transnational perspective. Drawing on newly discovered material, he provides a backstory  Lire la suite...
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Format : Livre
Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : Greg Robinson
ISBN : 9780231129220 023112922X 9780231129237 0231129238 9780231520126 0231520123
Numéro OCLC : 273823712
Description : viii, 397 p. ; 24 cm.
Contenu : Background to confinement --
The decision to remove ethnic Japanese from the West Coast --
Removal from the West Coast and control of ethnic Japanese outside --
The camp experience --
Military service and legal challenges --
The end of confinement and the postwar readjustment of Issei and Nisei --
Redress and the bitter heritage.
Autres titres : Japanese confinement in North America
Responsabilité : Greg Robinson.

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The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U. S. history. The author not only offers a new understanding of these events but also studies them within a larger time frame and from a transnational perspective. Drawing on newly discovered material, he provides a backstory of confinement that reveals for the first time the extent of the American government's surveillance of Japanese communities in the years leading up to war and the construction of what officials termed "concentration camps" for enemy aliens. He also considers the aftermath of confinement, including the place of Japanese Americans in postwar civil rights struggles, the long movement by former camp inmates for redress, and the continuing role of the camps as touchstones for nationwide commemoration and debate. This book analyzes official policy toward West Coast Japanese Americans within a North American context. The author studies confinement on the mainland alongside events in wartime Hawaii, where fears of Japanese Americans justified Army dictatorship, suspension of the Constitution, and the imposition of military tribunals. He similarly reads the treatment of Japanese Americans against Canada's confinement of 22,000 citizens and residents of Japanese ancestry from British Columbia. The book also recounts the expulsion of almost 5,000 Japanese from Mexico's Pacific Coast and the story of the Japanese Latin Americans who were kidnapped from their homes and interned in the United States. Approaching Japanese confinement as a continental and international phenomenon, the author offers a kaleidoscopic understanding of its genesis and outcomes.

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tour de force Nichi Bei Times 7/30/2009 Robinson deftly merges the Pacific Rim experience into one coherent magnum opus. -- Wayne Maeda Nichi Bei Times 7/30/2009 A superb history about one of the more Lire la suite...

 
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