Title After camp : portraits in midcentury Japanese American life and politics / Greg Robinson

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 318 pages) : illustrations Series ACLS Fellows' Publications Contents Resettlement and new lives -- Political science? FDR, Japanese Americans and the postwar dispersion of minorities -- Forrest LaViolette: race, internationalism, and assimilation -- Japantown born and reborn: comparing the resettlement experience of Issei and Nisei in Detroit, New York, and Los Angeles -- The varieties of assimilation -- Birth of a citizen: Miné Okubo and the politics of symbolism -- The "new Nisei" and identity politics -- Interethnic politics -- Japanese Americans and Mexican Americans: the limits of interracial collaboration -- From kuichi to comrades: Japanese American views of Jews in the 1930s and 1940s -- African American supporters of Japanese Americans, and the shift in Nisei views of African Americans -- African American responses to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans -- The Los Angeles defender: Hugh E. MacBeth and Japanese Americans -- Crusaders in Gotham: the JACD and interracial activism -- The rise and fall of postwar coalitions for civil rights -- From Korematsu to Brown: Nisei and the postwar struggle for civil rights -- An uneasy alliance: Blacks and Japanese Americans, 1954-1965 -- Epilogue Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Japanese Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century Japanese Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century Japanese Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States Community life -- United States -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies. HISTORY -- United States -- General. Japanese Americans Community life Ethnic relations Japanese Americans -- Civil rights Japanese Americans -- Politics and government Japanese Americans -- Social conditions Social aspects Social conditions SUBJECT United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140518 United States -- Ethnic relations -- 20th century Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520952270 0520952278 0520271580 9780520271586 0520271599 9780520271593

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