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After camp [electronic resource] : portraits in midcentury Japanese American life and politics / Greg Robinson
- Author
- Robinson, Greg, 1966-
- Published
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
- Physical Description
- viii, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- 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 -- Nisei and the postwar struggle for civil rights: from Oyama to Brown -- An uneasy alliance: Blacks and Japanese Americans, 1954-1965 -- Epilogue.
- Subject(s)
- 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
- United States—Social conditions—1945-
- United States—Ethnic relations—20th century
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780520271586 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520271580 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520271593 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520271599 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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