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Author: Christopher T. Hiroto Publisher: ISBN: Category : Japanese Americans Languages : en Pages : 0
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During World War II, over 112,000 Pacific Coast Japanese were evacuated from their West Coast homes and were relocated inland. Approximately two-thirds of the evacuees were American citizens of Japanese ancestry. Under normal circumstances these citizens would have enjoyed the same constitutional guarantees as any American-born or naturalized citizen of the United States. In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the constitutional rights of these Americans were suspended because as a racial group they were perceived to be a threat to the security of the United States. This study project was done to accomplish the following: To describe the anti-Japanese environment before WW II; To describe the social and political forces that created and amplified the perception that the Japanese were a security threat; To describe the evacuation of the Japanese from the West Coast and their relocation inland; To describe the judicial review and the constitutional challenge of the evacuation order; To analyze why the evacuation happened.
Author: Christopher T. Hiroto Publisher: ISBN: Category : Japanese Americans Languages : en Pages : 0
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During World War II, over 112,000 Pacific Coast Japanese were evacuated from their West Coast homes and were relocated inland. Approximately two-thirds of the evacuees were American citizens of Japanese ancestry. Under normal circumstances these citizens would have enjoyed the same constitutional guarantees as any American-born or naturalized citizen of the United States. In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the constitutional rights of these Americans were suspended because as a racial group they were perceived to be a threat to the security of the United States. This study project was done to accomplish the following: To describe the anti-Japanese environment before WW II; To describe the social and political forces that created and amplified the perception that the Japanese were a security threat; To describe the evacuation of the Japanese from the West Coast and their relocation inland; To describe the judicial review and the constitutional challenge of the evacuation order; To analyze why the evacuation happened.
Author: Christopher T. Hiroto Publisher: ISBN: Category : Japanese Americans Languages : en Pages : 134
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During World War II, over 112,000 Pacific Coast Japanese were evacuated from their West Coast homes and were relocated inland. Approximately two-thirds of the evacuees were American citizens of Japanese ancestry. Under normal circumstances these citizens would have enjoyed the same constitutional guarantees as any American-born or naturalized citizen of the United States. In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the constitutional rights of these Americans were suspended because as a racial group they were perceived to be a threat to the security of the United States. This study project was done to accomplish the following: To describe the anti-Japanese environment before WW II; To describe the social and political forces that created and amplified the perception that the Japanese were a security threat; To describe the evacuation of the Japanese from the West Coast and their relocation inland; To describe the judicial review and the constitutional challenge of the evacuation order; To analyze why the evacuation happened.
Author: Wendy Ng Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0313096554 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 232
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The internment of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II is one of the most shameful episodes in American history. This history and reference guide will help students and other interested readers to understand the history of this action and its reinterpretation in recent years, but it will also help readers to understand the Japanese American wartime experience through the words of those who were interned. Why did the U.S. government take this extraordinary action? How was the evacuation and resettlement handled? How did Japanese Americans feel on being asked to leave their homes and live in what amounted to concentration camps? How did they respond, and did they resist? What developments have taken place in the last twenty years that have reevaluated this wartime action? A variety of materials is provided to assist readers in understanding the internment experience. Six interpretive essays examine key aspects of the event and provide new interpretations based on the most recent scholarship. Essays include: - A short narrative history of the Japanese in America before World War II - The evacuation - Life within barbed wire-the assembly and relocation centers - The question of loyalty-Japanese Americans in the military and draft resisters - Legal challenges to the evacuation and internment - After the war-resettlement and redress A chronology of events, 26 biographical profiles of important figures, the text of 10 key primary documents--from Executive Order 9066, which authorized the internment camps, to first-person accounts of the internment experience--a glossary of terms, and an annotative bibliography of recommended print sources and web sites provide ready reference value. Every library should update its resources on World War II with this history and reference guide.
Author: Jeffery F. Burton Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 0295801514 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 465
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Confinement and Ethnicity documents in unprecedented detail the various facilities in which persons of Japanese descent living in the western United States were confined during World War II: the fifteen “assembly centers” run by the U.S. Army’s Wartime Civil Control Administration, the ten “relocation centers” created by the War Relocation Authority, and the internment camps, penitentiaries, and other sites under the jurisdiction of the Justice and War Departments. Originally published as a report of the Western Archeological and Conservation Center of the National Park Service, it is now reissued in a corrected edition, with a new Foreword by Tetsuden Kashima, associate professor of American ethnic studies at the University of Washington. Based on archival research, field visits, and interviews with former residents, Confinement and Ethnicity provides an overview of the architectural remnants, archeological features, and artifacts remaining at the various sites. Included are numerous maps, diagrams, charts, and photographs. Historic images of the sites and their inhabitants -- including several by Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams -- are combined with photographs of present-day settings, showing concrete foundations, fence posts, inmate-constructed drainage ditches, and foundations and parts of buildings, as well as inscriptions in Japanese and English written or scratched on walls and rocks. The result is a unique and poignant treasure house of information for former residents and their descendants, for Asian American and World War II historians, and for anyone interested in the facts about what the authors call these “sites of shame.”
Author: Leonard Broom Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520359097 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 232
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
Author: Audrie Girdner Publisher: ISBN: Category : Civil rights Languages : en Pages : 606
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"In an ominous departure from American constitutional guarantees 100,000 West Coast American Japanese were evacuated and interned during World War II. Here is the whole shameful story, told in full for the first time. It is a story told largely in the words of the people themselves, about their reactions and experiences in their cataclysmic uprooting that robbed them of their homes, their businesses, their farms, their sense of belonging to a nation that repudiated solely on grounds of racial ties with the enemy, although the overwhelming majority of them had clear records of responsible and loyal citizenship, the young children and elders among them could not possibly have posed a threat to security, and the American-born men were asked to contribute to the very war effort they were assumed to jeopardize. This is the drama of their confinement, of their eventual release and gradual reacceptance by their countrymen, whose hysteria, whipped on by racial hate groups, was sanctioned by the highest tribunal of the land (through decisions which still stand unreversed today). Now, twenty-five years later, 'the apologies have been made, the reparations attempted, the claims settled, and the citizenship of the renunciants restored,' wrote the authors, 'but the evacuation cannot be relegated to a dusty corner of history. As a departure from American principles, it will stand as an aberration and a warning'"--
Author: United States. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians Publisher: ISBN: Category : Japanese Americans Languages : en Pages : 484
Author: Page Smith Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 544
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Based on interviews with camp survivors and new archival research, an account of the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps during World War II offers a new perspective on a tragic episode in contemporary American history.
Author: Christopher T. Hiroto
Author: Christopher T. Hiroto
Author: Christopher T. Hiroto
Author: United States. Army. Western Defense Command and Fourth Army
Author: Wendy Ng
Author: Jeffery F. Burton
Author: Leonard Broom
Author: Harlan D. Unrau
Author: Audrie Girdner
Author: United States. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
Author: Page Smith