After camp [[electronic resource] ] : portraits in midcentury Japanese American life and politics / / Greg Robinson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787594903321
• Autore: Robinson Greg <1966->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012
• ISBN: 9786613520999; 1-280-11670-6; 0-520-95227-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Disciplina: 973/.04956
• Soggetti: Japanese Americans - Social conditions - 20th century; Japanese Americans - Politics and government - 20th century; Japanese Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century; Japanese Americans - Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945; Cold War - Social aspects - United States; Community life - United States - History - 20th century; United States Social conditions 1945-; United States Ethnic relations 20th century
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Resettlement and New Lives -- Part II. The Varieties of Assimilation -- Part III. Interethnic Politics -- Part IV. African American Supporters of Japanese Americans, and the Shift in Nisei Views of African Americans -- Part V. The Rise and Fall of Postwar Coalitions for Civil Rights -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. A vast and ever-growing literature exists, first on the entry and settlement of Japanese immigrants in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, then on the experience of the immigrants and their American-born children during World War II. Yet the essential question, "What happened afterwards?" remains all but unanswered in historical ; literature. Excluded from the wartime economic boom and scarred psychologically by their wartime ordeal, the former camp inmates struggled to remake their lives in the years that followed. This volume consists of a series of case studies that shed light on various developments relating to Japanese Americans in the aftermath of their wartime confinement, including resettlement nationwide, the mental and physical readjustment of the former inmates, and their political engagement, most notably in concert with other racialized and ethnic minority groups.