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After camp : portraits in midcentury Japanese American life and politics /

This book illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. A vast and ever-growing literature exists, first on the entry and settlement of Japanese immigrants in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, then on t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Robinson, Greg, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
Colección:ACLS Fellows' Publications.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Resettlement and new lives
  • Political science? FDR, Japanese Americans and the postwar dispersion of minorities
  • Forrest LaViolette: race, internationalism, and assimilation
  • Japantown born and reborn: comparing the resettlement experience of Issei and Nisei in Detroit, New York, and Los Angeles
  • The varieties of assimilation
  • Birth of a citizen: Miné Okubo and the politics of symbolism
  • The "new Nisei" and identity politics
  • Interethnic politics
  • Japanese Americans and Mexican Americans: the limits of interracial collaboration
  • From kuichi to comrades: Japanese American views of Jews in the 1930s and 1940s
  • African American supporters of Japanese Americans, and the shift in Nisei views of African Americans
  • African American responses to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans
  • The Los Angeles defender: Hugh E. MacBeth and Japanese Americans
  • Crusaders in Gotham: the JACD and interracial activism
  • The rise and fall of postwar coalitions for civil rights
  • From Korematsu to Brown: Nisei and the postwar struggle for civil rights
  • An uneasy alliance: Blacks and Japanese Americans, 1954-1965
  • Epilogue.