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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825326503321

Autore

Pak Yoon K.

Titolo

Wherever I go, I will always be a loyal American : schooling Seattle's Japanese Americans during World War II / / Yoon K. Pak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : RoutledgeFalmer, , 2002

ISBN

1-136-74354-5

0-429-23566-6

0-203-81948-9

1-299-28585-6

1-136-74355-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Studies in the history of education ; ; v. 13

Disciplina

371.829/95/60797772

Soggetti

Japanese Americans - Education - Washington (State) - Seattle

World War, 1939-1945 - Japanese Americans - Education (Primary) - Washington (State) - Seattle

World War, 1939-1945 - Washington (State) - Seattle

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. 185-192) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Wherever I Go, I Will Always Be a Loyal American; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; DEFINITION OF TERMS; INTRODUCTION; 1. MAKING SENSE OF DISSONANCE; 2. SETTING THE STAGE; 3. LOOKING BACKWARD; 4. AMERICANIZATION BROADENED; 5. TENUOUS CITIZENSHIP; 6. DISSONANCE EMBODIED; CONCLUSION; A NOTE ON METHOD AND SOURCES; APPENDIX: CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS AFFECTING JAPANESE AMERICANS NATIONALLY FROM DECEMBER 7, 1941, TO JUNE 7, 1942; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Wherever I Go I'll Always Be a Loyal American is the story of how the Seattle public schools responded to the news of its Japanese American (Nisei) students' internment upon the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 14, 1942.  Drawing upon previously untapped letters and compositions written by the students themselves during the time in which the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the internment order took place, Pak explores how the



schools and their students attempted to cope with evident contradiction and dissonance in democracy and citizenship.  E