Inclusion : How Hawai'i Protected Japanese Americans from Mass Internment, Transformed Itself, and Changed America / Tom Coffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coffman, Tom, Author.

Contributor:

De Gruyter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Japanese Americans.

Japanese Americans--Hawaii--History--20th century.

World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans.

World War, 1939-1945.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages) : 22 black and white illustrations

Contained In:

De Gruyter University Press Library.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

text file PDF

Summary:

Following December 7, 1941, when the United States government interned 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry evicted from scattered settlements throughout the West Coast states, why was a much larger number concentrated in the Hawaiian Islands war zone not similarly incarcerated? At the root of the story is an inclusive community that worked from the ground up to protect an embattled segment of its population. Where the onset of World War II surprised the American public, war with Japan arrived in Hawai'i in slow motion. Responding to numerous signs of impending conflict, a Council for Interracial Unity mapped two goals: Minimize internment and maximize inclusion in the war effort. The Council's aspirational work was expressed in a widely repeated saying: "How we get along during the war will determine how we get along when the war is over." The Army Command of Hawai'i, reassured by first-hand acquaintances, came to believe "Trust breeds trust." Where most histories have shielded President Franklin D. Roosevelt from direct responsibility for the U.S. mainland internment, his relentless demands for a mass removal from Hawai'i-ultimately thwarted-reveal him as author and actor. In making sense of the disparity between Island and mainland, Inclusion unravels the deep history of the U.S. "sabotage psychosis," dissecting why many continental Americans still believe Japan succeeded at Pearl Harbor because of the unseen hand of Japanese saboteurs. Contrary to the explanation of hysteria as the cause of the internment, Inclusion documents how a high-level plan of mass removal actually was pitched to Hawai'i prior to December 7, only to be rejected.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Part I From the Ground Up

1 On the Ground

2 Next to the Ocean

Part II Under the American Flag

3 External and Internal Security

4 A Swing toward Americanization

5 A Climate of Fear

Part III Inside the War Zone

6 Resetting the Clock

7 The Cry of Sabotage

8 The Threat of Demoralization

Part IV From the Inside Out 9 The Morale Section at Work

9 The Morale Section at Work

10 War Service or Mass Evacuation?

11 The Mobilization

12 Missionaries to America

Part V Home Front and Battlefront

13 The Home Front Doldrums

14 Imagining a New Hawai'i

15 Sealed with Sacrifice

16 All the People, All the Time

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)

ISBN:

9780824890186

OCLC:

1289371369

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.