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Autore |
Muller Eric L |
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American inquisition [[electronic resource] ] : the hunt for Japanese American disloyalty in World War II / / Eric L. Muller |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (214 p.) |
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Collana |
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H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series |
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Soggetti |
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World War, 1939-1945 - Japanese Americans |
Japanese Americans - Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 |
Internal security - United States - History - 20th century |
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United States Politics and government 1933-1945 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-182) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Japanese Americans before the War; 3 Presumed Loyal, Presumed Disloyal; 4 Pressures on the Presumption of Disloyalty; 5 The Loyalty Questionnaires of 1943; 6 Processing Loyalty at the Japanese American Joint Board; 7 Processing Loyalty at the Provost Marshal General's Office; 8 Processing Loyalty at the War Relocation Authority; 9 Processing Loyalty at the Western Defense Command; 10 Defending (and Distorting) Loyalty Adjudication in Court; 11 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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When the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. In American Inquisition, Eric Muller relates the untold story of exactly how military and civilian bureaucrats judged these tens of thousands of American citizens during wartime. Some citizens were deemed loyal and were freed, but one in four was declared disloyal to America and condemned to repressive segregation in the camps or barred from war-related jobs. Using cultural and rel |
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