Historical memories of the Japanese American internment and the struggle for redress / Alice Yang Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Alice Yang.

Series:

Asian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.

Japanese Americans.

Japanese Americans--Reparations.

World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans.

World War, 1939-1945.

Collective memory--United States.

Collective memory.

Reparations for historical injustices.

United States.

Physical Description:

xv, 590 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2008.

Summary:

This book explores how the politics of memory and history affected representations of the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II and the passage of redress legislation in 1988.

Contents:

The history of "military necessity" and the justification for internment

Dillon S. Myer and the WRA's history of "relocation, reintegration, and rehabilitation"

"We pledge our fullest cooperation" : a history of loyalty and patriotism in the Japanese American Citizens League

The history of "helpful" administrative advisers and "objective" researchers within the camps

The resurrection of the history of internment in the 1960s and 1970s

America's "concentration camps" : revisionist histories and activism in the 1960s and 1970s

"Three strands woven into a single fabric" : Japanese American history and the struggle to obtain redress

Multiple histories of internment and the passage of redress legislation

Representations of internment in art and media, and the lessons of history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-568) and index.

ISBN:

9780804745345

080474534X

OCLC:

78893038