Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe : Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps /

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"In the Japanese American relocation camps of World War II, internees could, on any given day, be both clients and victims of their assigned War Relocation Authority lawyers. The morally ambiguous remit of these attorneys was wide and often contradictory, including overseeing the day-to-day adm...

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Autor principal: Muller, Eric L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States. > War Relocation Authority.
United States. > War Relocation Authority > Officials and employees.
Role conflict.
Japanese Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Internment camps.
Government attorneys.
Employees.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > United States.
Japanese Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > 20th century.
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Government attorneys > Psychology.
Government attorneys > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"In the Japanese American relocation camps of World War II, internees could, on any given day, be both clients and victims of their assigned War Relocation Authority lawyers. The morally ambiguous remit of these attorneys was wide and often contradictory, including overseeing the day-to-day administration of the camps, settling internal disputes between inmates, managing conflict between detainees and their government captors, and providing legal representation for prisoners outside of the camps. In re-creating the daily lives of these WRA attorneys, Eric L. Muller, a leading expert on Japanese American relocation and internment during World War II, seeks to capture historical subjects as three-dimensional, flawed human beings"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (304 pages).
ISBN:9781469673998

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