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Democratizing the Enemy
The Japanese American Internment
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Brian Masaru Hayashi
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2010
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During World War II some 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and detained in concentration camps in several states. These Japanese Americans lost millions of dollars in property and were forced to live in so-called "assembly centers" surrounded by barbed wire fences and armed sentries.
In this insightful and groundbreaking work, Brian Hayashi reevaluates the three-year ordeal of interred Japanese Americans. Using previously undiscovered documents, he examines the forces behind the U.S. government's decision to establish internment camps. His conclusion: the motives of government officials and top military brass likely transcended the standard explanations of racism, wartime hysteria, and leadership failure. Among the other surprising factors that played into the decision, Hayashi writes, were land development in the American West and plans for the American occupation of Japan.
What was the long-term impact of America's actions? While many historians have explored that question, Hayashi takes a fresh look at how U.S. concentration camps affected not only their victims and American civil liberties, but also people living in locations as diverse as American Indian reservations and northeast Thailand.
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Brian Masaru Hayashi is Associate Professor of Human Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, and author of For the Sake of Our Japanese Brethren: Assimilation, Nationalism, and Protestantism among the Japanese of Los Angeles, 1895-1942.
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"Brian Masaru Hayashi's ambitious effort makes available much new archival data and presents original and provocative interpretations. . . . Democratizing the Enemy is an original and stimulating examination of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, and as such, it brings new perspectives to the topic. It should be read by all those interested in this unique and tumultuous period."---Stephen S. Fugita, Western Historical Quarterly
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"This fresh and far-reaching interpretation of the World War II Japanese American exclusion and detention experience achieves benchmark historiographical status. . . . Brian Hayashi has written a book that dramatically reconfigures how the topic of the Japanese American internment will be approached in the coming generation of scholarship."---Arthur A. Hansen, Journal of American History
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"Hayashi's book provides a newer, deeper insight into Japanese American history. Hayashi's book is a masterpiece and should be read by anyone writing on the Japanese American internment."---Eriko Yamamoto, History
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"Winner of the 2006 Robert G. Athearn Award, Western History Association"
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction
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Prologue. Beyond Civil Rights
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One. Governors And Their Advisers, 1918–1942
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Two. The Governed: Japanese Americans And Politics, 1880–1942
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Three. Establishing The Structures Of Internment, From Limited To Mass Internment, 1942–1943
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Four. The Liberal Democratic Way Of Management, 1942–1943
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Five. “Why Awake A Sleeping Lion?” Governance During The Quiet Period, 1943–1944
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Six. “Taking Away The Candy”: Relocation, The Twilight Of The Japanese Empire, And Japanese American Politics, 1944–1945
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Seven. The Long Shadow Of Internment
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Epilogue. Toward Human Rights
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Notes
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A Note on Sources
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Acknowledgments
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Index
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December 16, 2010
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9781400837748
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Keywords for this book
Nisei; Japanese Americans; Internment; Kibei; Manzanar; Enemy alien; Michi Weglyn; Japan–United States relations; John L. DeWitt; Japanese diaspora; Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians; Draft evasion; German American Bund; Executive Order 9066; Works Progress Administration; Japanese-Canadian internment; Community council; Internment of Japanese Americans; Carey McWilliams (journalist); Racism; Togo Tanaka; Occupation of Japan; Immigration Act of 1924; Permanent Settlement; War effort; Friends of New Germany; Housing authority; Military Intelligence Service (United States); Japanese American Citizens League; Axis powers; New Laws; War Relocation Authority; Nomura; Conscription; National security; General Assistance; Warfare; Surrender of Japan; Attack on Pearl Harbor; Prisoner of war; Russo-Japanese War; Selective Service System; Douglas MacArthur; Demobilization; Eighth Route Army; Newspaper; Sitdown strike; Balilla; Bataan Death March; Civilian Conservation Corps; Camp Savage; World War II; Yuji Ichioka; Smith Act; Infanticide; Anti-Americanism; Clement J. Zablocki; Ostracism; Legion of Honour; V.; Western Defense Command; Japanese language; National Congress of American Indians; Special Tasks; Karl Yoneda; Black Tom explosion; Japanese Ambassador to the United States; Bill Hosokawa; Imperial Japanese Navy; Utah
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
