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Wherever I go, I will always be a loyal American : schooling Seattle's Japanese Americans during World War II / Yoon K. Pak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pak, Yoon K., author.
- Series:
- Studies in the history of education (RoutledgeFalmer (Firm)) ; v. 13.
- Studies in the history of education ; v. 13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese Americans--Education--Washington (State)--Seattle.
- Japanese Americans.
- World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--Education (Primary)--Washington (State)--Seattle.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Washington (State)--Seattle.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Wherever I Go I'll Always Be a Loyal American is the story of how the Seattle public schools responded to the news of its Japanese American (Nisei) students' internment upon the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 14, 1942. Drawing upon previously untapped letters and compositions written by the students themselves during the time in which the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the internment order took place, Pak explores how the schools and their students attempted to cope with evident contradiction and dissonance in democracy and citizenship. E
- Contents:
- Cover; Wherever I Go, I Will Always Be a Loyal American; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; DEFINITION OF TERMS; INTRODUCTION; 1. MAKING SENSE OF DISSONANCE; 2. SETTING THE STAGE; 3. LOOKING BACKWARD; 4. AMERICANIZATION BROADENED; 5. TENUOUS CITIZENSHIP; 6. DISSONANCE EMBODIED; CONCLUSION; A NOTE ON METHOD AND SOURCES; APPENDIX: CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS AFFECTING JAPANESE AMERICANS NATIONALLY FROM DECEMBER 7, 1941, TO JUNE 7, 1942; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-192) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-74354-5
- 0-429-23566-6
- 0-203-81948-9
- 1-299-28585-6
- 1-136-74355-3
- 9780429235665
- OCLC:
- 831121469
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