In this revisionist history of the United States government relocation of Japanese-American citizens during World War II, Roger W. Lotchin challenges the prevailing notion that racism was the cause of the creation of these centers. After unpacking the origins and meanings of American attitudes towar...

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1. Verfasser:	Lotchin, Roger W. 1935- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
Schlagworte:	Japanese Americans / Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Internierung Internierungslager Japaner Zweiter Weltkrieg USA
Online-Zugang:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	In this revisionist history of the United States government relocation of Japanese-American citizens during World War II, Roger W. Lotchin challenges the prevailing notion that racism was the cause of the creation of these centers. After unpacking the origins and meanings of American attitudes toward the Japanese-Americans, Lotchin then shows that Japanese relocation was a consequence of nationalism rather than racism. Lotchin also explores the conditions in the relocation centers and the experiences of those who lived there, with discussions on health, religion, recreation, economics, consumerism, and theater. He honors those affected by uncovering the complexity of how and why their relocation happened, and makes it clear that most Japanese-Americans never went to a relocation center. Written by a specialist in US home front studies, this book will be required reading for scholars and students of the American home front during World War II, Japanese relocation, and the history of Japanese immigrants in America
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2018) Introduction: relocation, a racial obsession -- Section I. The reach of American racism? -- Racism and anti-racism -- The ballad of Frankie Seto: winning despite the odds -- Chinese and European origins of the coast alien dilemma -- Impact of World War II: a multicusal brief -- The lagging backlash -- The looming Roberts Report -- Races and racism -- Section II. Concentration camps or relocation centers? -- Definitions versus historical reality: concentration camps in Cuba, South Africa, the Philippines -- Resistance or cooperation? -- Bowling in Twin Falls: an open-door leave policy -- Daily life: food, labor, sickness, and health -- Wartime attitudes toward relocation -- Family life, personal freedom, and combat fatigue -- Economics and the dust of Nikkei memory -- Consumerism: shopping at Sears -- The leisure revolution: Mary Kagoyama, the sweetheart of Manzanar -- Of horse stalls and modern memory-housing and living conditions -- Politics -- Culture: of judo and the jive bombers -- Freedom of religion -- Education, the passion of Dillon Myer -- The right to know, information and the free flow of ideas -- Administrators and administration -- Section III. The demise of relocation -- Politics of equilibrium-friends enemies on and the outside -- Endgame: termination of the centers -- Conclusion: the place of race
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 347 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781108297592
DOI:	10.1017/9781108297592