Historical memories of the Japanese American internment and the struggle for redress
By: Alice Yang Murray.
Series: Asian America
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804745345
Subjects: Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans -- Reparations; World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans; Collective memory -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The history of "military necessity" and the justification of internment; title: Dillon S. Myer and the WRA's history of "relocation, reintegration and rehabilitation"; title: "We pledge our fullest cooperation" : the Japanese American Citizens League's history of loyalty and patriotism; title: The history of "helpful" administrative advisers and "objective" researchers within the camps; title: The resurrection of the history of internment in the 1960s and 1970s; title: America's "concentration camps" : revisionist histories and Japanese American activism in the late 1960s and 1970s; title: "Three strands woven into the same fabric" : Japanese American history and the struggle to obtain redress; title: Multiple histories of internment and the passage of redress legislation; title: Internment exhibits, monuments, films, and the lessons of history.