After camp : portraits in midcentury Japanese American life and politics / Greg Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Greg, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese Americans--Social conditions--20th century.

Japanese Americans.

Japanese Americans--Politics and government--20th century.

Japanese Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

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

Cold War--Social aspects--United States.

Cold War.

Social aspects.

Ethnic relations.

Community life.

History.

Japanese Americans--Civil rights.

Japanese Americans--Politics and government.

Japanese Americans--Social conditions.

United States.

Community life--United States--History--20th century.

United States--Social conditions--1945-.

Social conditions.

United States--Ethnic relations--20th century.

Physical Description:

viii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]

Summary:

This book illuminates a central but unexplored area of American history: the mid-century Japanese American experience.. A vast literature exists, first on the entry and settlement of Japanese immigrants in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, then on the experience Of the immigrants and their American-born children during World War II, but the essential question, "What happened afterwards?" remains all but unanswered. In a series of case studies, After Camp sheds light on various developments relating to Japanese Americans in the aftermath of their wartime confinement, including resettlement nationwide, the mental and physical readjustment of the former inmates, and their political engagement. Book jacket.

Contents:

Resettlement and new lives

Political science? FDR, Japanese Americans and the postwar dispersion of minorities

Forrest LaViolette: race, internationalism, and assimilation

Japantown born and reborn: comparing the resettlement experience of Issei and Nisei in Detroit, New York, and Los Angeles

The varieties of assimilation

Birth of a citizen: Miné Okubo and the politics of symbolism

The "new Nisei" and identity politics

Interethnic politics

Japanese Americans and Mexican Americans: the limits of interracial collaboration

From kuichi to comrades: Japanese American views of Jews in the 1930s and 1940s

African American supporters of Japanese Americans, and the shift in Nisei views of African Americans

African American responses to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans

The Los Angeles defender: Hugh E. MacBeth and Japanese Americans

Crusaders in Gotham: the JACD and interracial activism

The rise and fall of postwar coalitions for civil rights

Nisei and the postwar struggle for civil rights: from Oyama to Brown

An uneasy alliance: Blacks and Japanese Americans, 1954-1965

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520271586

0520271580

9780520271593

0520271599

OCLC:

744977275