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Serving our country : Japanese American women in the military during World War II / Brenda L. Moore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moore, Brenda L., 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Japanese American.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Japanese American women--History.
- Japanese American women.
- Women soldiers--United States.
- Women soldiers.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- United States.
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and America's declaration of war on Japan, the U.S. War Department allowed up to five hundred second-generation, or "Nisei," Japanese American women to enlist in the Women's Army Corps and, in smaller numbers, in the Army Medical Corps. Through in-depth interviews with surviving Nisei women who served, Brenda L. Moore provides fascinating firsthand accounts of their experiences. Interested primarily in shedding light on the experiences of Nisei women during the war, the author argues for the relevance of these experiences to larger questions of American race relations and views on gender and their intersections, particularly in the country's highly charged wartime atmosphere. Uncovering a page in American history that has been obscured, Moore adds nuance to our understanding of the situation of Japanese Americans during the war.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Before the War
- Chapter 3. Contradictions and Paradoxes
- Chapter 4. Women’s Army Corps Recruitment of Nisei Women
- Chapter 5. Service in the Women’s Army Corps
- Chapter 6. Commissions in the Army Medical Corps
- Chapter 7. The Postwar Years
- Appendix: Wacs Who Entered the Army from Hawaii, December 1944
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-201) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8135-7110-3
- 0-8135-3522-0
- OCLC:
- 58752355
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