20th century history
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aftermath of world war i
alien land act
american born immigrant children
american history
asian american history
Author_Greg Robinson
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discrimination in american history
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ethnic minority groups
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japanese american history
japanese american struggles
japanese internment
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Product details
- ISBN 9780520271593
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Feb 2012
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. A vast and ever-growing literature exists, first on the entry and settlement of Japanese immigrants in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, then on the experience of the immigrants and their American-born children during World War II. Yet the essential question, "What happened afterwards?" remains all but unanswered in historical literature. Excluded from the wartime economic boom and scarred psychologically by their wartime ordeal, the former camp inmates struggled to remake their lives in the years that followed. This volume consists of a series of case studies that shed light on various developments relating to Japanese Americans in the aftermath of their wartime confinement, including resettlement nationwide, the mental and physical readjustment of the former inmates, and their political engagement, most notably in concert with other racialized and ethnic minority groups.
Greg Robinson is Associate Professor of History at l'Universite du Quebec A Montreal and the author of A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America (Columbia).
