American inquisition : the hunt for Japanese American disloyalty in World War II /
"When the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on which of those citizens were loyal and which were disloyal. In American Inquisition, Eric Muller relates the untold story of how...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2007]
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Colección: | H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Japanese Americans before the war
- 3. Presumed loyal, presumed disloyal
- 4. Pressures on the presumption of disloyalty
- 5. The loyalty questionnaires of 1943
- 6. Processing loyalty at the Japanese American Joint Board
- 7. Processing loyalty at the Provost Marshal General's office
- 8. Processing loyalty at the War Relocation Authority
- 9. Processing loyalty at the Western Defense Command
- 10. Defending (and distorting) loyalty adjudication in court
- 11. Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index.