A Tragedy of Democracy : : Japanese Confinement in North America /

A Tragedy of Democracy : : Japanese Confinement in North America / / Greg Robinson.

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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 understanding of these events but also studies them...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Robinson, Greg,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note on Terminology
  • Introduction
  • 1. Background to Confinement
  • 2. The Decision to Remove Ethnic Japanese from the West Coast
  • 3. Removal from the West Coast and Control of Ethnic Japanese Outside
  • 4. The Camp Experience
  • 5. Military Service and Legal Challenges
  • 6. The End of Confinement and the Postwar Readjustment of Issei and Nisei
  • 7. Redress and the Bitter Heritage
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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