Japanese-American relocation in World War II : a reconsideration / Roger W. Lotchin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lotchin, Roger W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Japanese Americans.

Physical Description:

xvi, 347 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

In this revisionist history of the United States government relocation of Japanese-American citizens during World War II, Roger W. Lotchin challenges the prevailing notion that racism was the cause of the creation of these centers. After unpacking the origins and meanings of American attitudes toward the Japanese-Americans, Lotchin then shows that Japanese relocation was a consequence of nationalism rather than racism. Lotchin also explores the conditions in the relocation centers and the experiences of those who lived there, with discussions on health, religion, recreation, economics, consumerism, and theater. He honors those affected by uncovering the complexity of how and why their relocation happened, and makes it clear that most Japanese-Americans never went to a relocation center.

Contents:

Introduction: relocation, a racial obsession

Section I. The reach of American racism?

Racism and anti-racism

The ballad of Frankie Seto: winning despite the odds

Chinese and European origins of the coast alien dilemma

Impact of World War II: a multicusal brief

The lagging backlash

The looming Roberts Report

Races and racism

Section II. Concentration camps or relocation centers?

Definitions versus historical reality: concentration camps in Cuba, South Africa, the Philippines

Resistance or cooperation?

Bowling in Twin Falls: an open-door leave policy

Daily life: food, labor, sickness, and health

Wartime attitudes toward relocation

Family life, personal freedom, and combat fatigue

Economics and the dust of Nikkei memory

Consumerism: shopping at Sears

The leisure revolution: Mary Kagoyama, the sweetheart of Manzanar

Of horse stalls and modern memory-housing and living conditions

Politics

Culture: of judo and the jive bombers

Freedom of religion

Education, the passion of Dillon Myer

The right to know, information and the free flow of ideas

Administrators and administration

Section III. The demise of relocation

Politics of equilibrium-friends enemies on and the outside

Endgame: termination of the centers

Conclusion: the place of race.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108419291

1108419291

9781108410397

1108410391

OCLC:

1009214662