Jim and Jap Crow : : A Cultural History of 1940s Interracial America / / Matthew M. Briones.

Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. government rounded up more than one hundred thousand Japanese Americans and sent them to internment camps. One of those internees was Charles Kikuchi. In thousands of diary pages, he documented his experiences in the camps, his resettle...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 3 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface: "Contraction and Release"
  • Introduction. An Age of Possibility
  • Chapter 1. Before Pearl Harbor: Taking the Measure of a "Marginal" Man
  • Chapter 2. "A Multitude of Complexes": Finding Common Ground with Louis Adamic
  • Chapter 3. "Unity within Diversity": Intimacies and Public Discourses of Race and Ethnicity
  • Chapter 4. "Participating and Observing": Dorothy Swaine Thomas, W. I. Thomas, and JERS
  • Chapter 5. The Tanforan and Gila Diaries: Becoming Nikkei
  • Chapter 6. From "Jap Crow" to "Jim and Jane Crow": Black and Blue (and Yellow) in Chicago and the Bay Area
  • Chapter 7. "It Could Just as Well Be Me": Japanese American and African American GIs in the Army Diary
  • Conclusion: Tatsuro, "Standing Man"
  • Notes
  • Index