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After Camp: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics
Greg Robinson
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Description for After Camp: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics
Hardback. Illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. This title includes case studies that focus on various developments relating to Japanese Americans in the aftermath of their wartime confinement, including resettlement nationwide. Num Pages: 328 pages, 13 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520271586
SKU
V9780520271586
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About Greg Robinson
Greg Robinson is Associate Professor of History at l'Universite du Quebec A Montreal and the author of A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America (Columbia).
Reviews for After Camp: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics
"Far ranging, full of information and wonderful reading." International Examiner "After Camp is a record of a unique time, place and situation, but its reach is universal." Japan Times "Essential... A laudable intervention into the histories of Asian America, race, politics, and law in the mid-twentieth century."
Ellen D. Wu, Indiana University Jrnl Of American History "[An] important contribution... ... Read more
Ellen D. Wu, Indiana University Jrnl Of American History "[An] important contribution... ... Read more