Serving Our Country : : Japanese American Women in the Military during World War II / / Brenda Lee Moore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Moore, Brenda Lee,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

Following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and America's declaration of war on Japan, the U.S. War Department allowed up to five hundred second-generation, or "Nisei," Japanese American women to enlist in the Women's Army Corps and, in smaller numbers, in the Army Medical Corps. Through in-depth interviews with surviving Nisei women who served, Brenda L. Moore provides fascinating firsthand accounts of their experiences. Interested primarily in shedding light on the experiences of Nisei women during the war, the author argues for the relevance of these experiences to larger questions of American race relations and views on gender and their intersections, particularly in the country's highly charged wartime atmosphere. Uncovering a page in American history that has been obscured, Moore adds nuance to our understanding of the situation of Japanese Americans during the war.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Before the War -- Chapter 3. Contradictions and Paradoxes -- Chapter 4. Women’s Army Corps Recruitment of Nisei Women -- Chapter 5. Service in the Women’s Army Corps -- Chapter 6. Commissions in the Army Medical Corps -- Chapter 7. The Postwar Years -- Appendix: Wacs Who Entered the Army from Hawaii, December 1944 -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author