Title A tragedy of democracy : Japanese confinement in North America / Greg Robinson

Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 397 pages) Contents Background to confinement -- The decision to remove ethnic Japanese from the West Coast -- Removal from the West Coast and control of ethnic Japanese outside -- The camp experience -- Military service and legal challenges -- The end of confinement and the postwar readjustment of Issei and Nisei -- Redress and the bitter heritage Summary The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U.S. history. Greg Robinson not only offers a bold new und Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 25, 2017) Subject Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 Japanese Americans -- Pacific States -- Social conditions -- 20th century Japanese Americans -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- United States Japanese -- Government policy -- Canada -- History -- 20th century World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Canada HISTORY. General. HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. Japanese Americans Japanese Americans -- Social conditions Japanese -- Government policy Race relations Social aspects Japaner Weltkrieg 1939-1945 Weltkrieg II -- Nordamerika. Weltkrieg II -- USA. Japaner -- tvångsförflyttningar -- Förenta staterna -- 1939-1945 (andra världskriget) Japaner -- statlig politik -- historia -- Nordamerika -- 1900-talet. Rasrelationer -- historia -- Nordamerika -- 1900-talet. Andra världskriget 1939-1945 -- sociala aspekter -- Nordamerika. SUBJECT Pacific States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Canada -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Subject Canada United States United States -- Pacific States Nordamerika Japaner -- Nordamerika -- Geschichte 20. Jh. Japaner -- USA -- Geschichte 20. Jh. Japaner. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2008049150 ISBN 9780231520126 0231520123 9786613629586 6613629588

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