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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Greg, 1966-

Series:

ACLS Fellows' Publications.

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.

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

Community life.

United States--Social conditions--1945-.

United States.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Portraits in midcentury Japanese American life and politics

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. A vast and ever-growing literature exists, first on the entry and settlement of Japanese immigrants in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, then on the experience of the immigrants and their American-born children during World War II. Yet the essential question, "What happened afterwards?" remains all but unanswered in historical literature. Excluded from the wartime economic boom and scarred psychologically by their wartime ordeal, the former camp inmates struggled to remake their lives in the years that followed. This volume consists of a series of case studies that shed 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, most notably in concert with other racialized and ethnic minority groups.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

Part I. Resettlement and New Lives

Part II. The Varieties of Assimilation

Part III. Interethnic Politics

Part IV. African American Supporters of Japanese Americans, and the Shift in Nisei Views of African Americans

Part V. The Rise and Fall of Postwar Coalitions for Civil Rights

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613520999

9781280116704

1280116706

9780520952270

0520952278

OCLC:

776108963