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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458886203321

Autore

Odo Franklin

Titolo

No sword to bury [[electronic resource] ] : Japanese Americans in Hawai'i during World War II / / Franklin Odo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, c2004

ISBN

1-282-56696-2

9786612566967

1-59213-803-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

Asian American history and culture

Disciplina

305.895/60969/09041

Soggetti

Japanese Americans - Hawaii

Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941

World War, 1939-1945 - Participation, Japanese American

Electronic books.

Hawaii Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-314) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: The Making of a Model Minority; 1 Immigrant Parents; 2 Generation on Trial: The 1920's; 3 Before the Fire: The 1930's; 4 Pearl Harbor; 5 Hawai`i Territorial Guard; 6 The Varsity Victory Volunteers; 7 Schofield Barracks; 8 The Front Lines: Battlefront and Home Front; 9 After the War; Conclusion; Appendix: Roster of Varsity Victory Volunteers; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and immediately called upon to defend the Hawaiian islands against invasion. In a few weeks, however, the military government questioned their loyalty and disarmed them.  In No Sword to Bury, Franklin Odo places the largely untold story of the wartime experience of these young men in the context of the community created by their immigrant families and its relationship to the larger, white-dominated society. At the heart of the book are vivid oral historical