No sword to bury : Japanese Americans in Hawai'i during World War II / Franklin Odo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Odo, Franklin.

Series:

Asian American history and culture.

Asian American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese Americans--Hawaii.

Japanese Americans.

Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.

World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Japanese American.

World War, 1939-1945.

Hawaii--Ethnic relations.

Hawaii.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and immediately called upon to defend the Hawaiian islands against invasion. In a few weeks, however, the military government questioned their loyalty and disarmed them. In No Sword to Bury, Franklin Odo places the largely untold story of the wartime experience of these young men in the context of the community created by their immigrant families and its relationship to the larger, white-dominated society. At the heart of the book are vivid oral historical

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: The Making of a Model Minority; 1 Immigrant Parents; 2 Generation on Trial: The 1920's; 3 Before the Fire: The 1930's; 4 Pearl Harbor; 5 Hawai`i Territorial Guard; 6 The Varsity Victory Volunteers; 7 Schofield Barracks; 8 The Front Lines: Battlefront and Home Front; 9 After the War; Conclusion; Appendix: Roster of Varsity Victory Volunteers; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-314) and index.

ISBN:

9786612566967

9781282566965

1282566962

9781592138036

1592138039

OCLC:

621403604