After camp
Subtitle: portraits in midcentury Japanese American life and politics
By: Greg Robinson
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780520271586; 9780520271593
Subjects: Politics and government; Cold War; Community life; Civil rights; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Ethnic relations; Japanese Americans; Social conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Resettlement and new lives; title: Political science? FDR, Japanese Americans and the postwar dispersion of minorities; title: Forrest LaViolette: race, internationalism, and assimilation; title: Japantown born and reborn: comparing the resettlement experience of Issei and Nisei in Detroit, New York, and Los Angeles; title: The varieties of assimilation; title: Birth of a citizen: Miné Okubo and the politics of symbolism; title: The "new Nisei" and identity politics; title: Interethnic politics; title: Japanese Americans and Mexican Americans: the limits of interracial collaboration; title: From kuichi to comrades: Japanese American views of Jews in the 1930s and 1940s; title: African American supporters of Japanese Americans, and the shift in Nisei views of African Americans; title: African American responses to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans; title: The Los Angeles defender: Hugh E. MacBeth and Japanese Americans; title: Crusaders in Gotham: the JACD and interracial activism; title: The rise and fall of postwar coalitions for civil rights; title: Nisei and the postwar struggle for civil rights: from Oyama to Brown; title: An uneasy alliance: Blacks and Japanese Americans, 1954-1965; title: Epilogue.