The long afterlife of Nikkei wartime incarceration /

This work re-examines the history of imprisonment of U.S. and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. It explores how historical events can linger in individual and collective memory and then crystallize in powerful moments of political engagement.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Inouye, Karen M., 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
Colección:Asian America.
Temas:
1939-1945
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Political prisoners > Effect of imprisonment on > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > United States.
Japanese Americans > Political activity > History.
Collective memory > United States.
Américains d'origine japonaise > Relogement et internement forcés, 1942-1945.
Prisonniers politiques > Effets de l'emprisonnement sur > États-Unis.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Camps d'internement > États-Unis.
Américains d'origine japonaise > Activité politique > Histoire.
Mémoire collective > États-Unis.
HISTORY / Europe / Western.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Collective memory.
Concentration camps.
Japanese Americans.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : unearthing the past in the present
  • Knowledge production as recasting experience
  • Personal disclosure as a catalyst for empathetic agency
  • Canadian redress as ambivalent transnationality
  • Hakomite and the cultivation of empathy as activism
  • Retroactive diplomas and the value of education.

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