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Book SynopsisLike its predecessors, this fourth edition of
Japanese Americans and World War II is intended as a succinct and affordable supplement to history and political science texts that minimize or neglect the
Nikkei (Japanese American) experience in World War II. As was hoped, the first two editions of this publication found an enthusiastic reception by instructors and students alike at the high school, community college, and university level. In addition, the expanded third edition found a new readership beyond the classroom, in members of and visitors to museums, such as the Japanese American Museum in Los Angeles, and interpretive centers at former concentration camp sites administered by the National Park Service at Manzanar, Tule Lake, and others (some in progress).
In response to the supportive and constructive feedback of students, instructors, and lay readers, we at Harlan Davidson undertook a bold and sweeping redesign of the third edition that saw our well
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
“Yellow Peril”: Issei Pioneers and the Anti-Chinese Legacy 3
The Movement for Japanese Exclusion 6
“200 Percent” American: Emergence of the Nisei 9
War Hysteria. Racism, and Political Expedience 12
Executive Order 9066: “Military Necessity”? 15
Mass Removal of “All Persons of Japanese Ancestry” 18
Administering the Concentration Camps 21
Life Behind Barbed Wire 23
Violence and Death by Deadly Force 26
The Botched Loyalty Questionnaire 29
Nikkei Soldiers and Draft Resisters 32
The Wartime Supreme Court Test Cases 35
Release and Return 38
Recovery: “Model” or “Marginal” Minority? 42
Breaking the Silence: Nikkei Confront the Nightmare 44
The Movement for Redress 48
The Commission’s Report and Recommendations 51
“Military Necessity” and the Coram Nobis Cases 53
Epilogue 55
Note on Terminology 68
Selected Bibliography 69
General Work on Japanese American History 69
The World War II Incarceration of Japanese Americans 72
Postwar Recovery and the Redress Movement 83
Films, Videos, and DVDs 84
Web Sites and the Internet 86
Index 88
Map, Documents (Executive Order 9066, and Instructions to implement Civilian Exclusion Order No. 108), and Photographs follow page 56
