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Book SynopsisFollowing Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. government rounded up more than one hundred thousand Japanese Americans and sent them to internment camps. One of those internees was Charles Kikuchi. In thousands of diary pages, he documented his experiences in the camps, his resettlement in Chicago and drafting into the Army on the eve o
Trade Review"Jim and Jap Crow is an interesting and thoughtful exploration of a turbulent and vitally important decade."--Charlotte Brooks, Journal of American History
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Preface: "Contraction and Release" xi Introduction: An Age of Possibility 1 Chapter 1: Before Pearl Harbor: Taking the Measure of a "Marginal" Man 18 Chapter 2: "A Multitude of Complexes": Finding Common Ground with Louis Adamic 49 Chapter 3: "Unity within Diversity": Intimacies and Public Discourses of Race and Ethnicity 74 Chapter 4: "Participating and Observing": Dorothy Swaine Thomas, W. I. Thomas, and JERS 108 Chapter 5: The Tanforan and Gila Diaries: Becoming Nikkei 136 Chapter 6: From "Jap Crow" to "Jim and Jane Crow": Black and Blue (and Yellow) in Chicago and the Bay Area 162 Chapter 7: "It Could Just as Well Be Me" Japanese American and African American GIs in the Army Diary 192 Conclusion: Tatsuro, "Standing Man" 218 Notes 237 Index 263
