Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment
Winner of the 2006 Robert G. Athearn Award, Western History Association"Hayashi's book provides a newer, deeper insight into Japanese American history. Hayashi's book is a masterpiece and should be read by anyone writing on the Japanese American internment."--Eriko Yamamoto,History"This fresh and far-reaching interpretation of the World War II Japanese American exclusion and detention experience achieves benchmark historiographical status. . . . Brian Hayashi has written a book that dramatically reconfigures how the topic of the Japanese American internment will be approached in the coming generation of scholarship."--Arthur A. Hansen,Journal of American History"Brian Masaru Hayashi's ambitious effort makes available much new archival data and presents original and provocative interpretations. . . .Democratizing the Enemyis an original and stimulating examination of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, and as such, it brings new perspectives to the topic. It should be read by all those interested in this unique and tumultuous period."--Stephen S. Fugita,Western Historical Quarterly