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Record Nr.

UNINA9911115730303321

Autore

Muller Eric L

Titolo

Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe : Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9798890863454

9781469677156

1469677156

9781469673998

1469673991

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 pages)

Disciplina

940.53/1773089956

940.531773089956

Soggetti

Role conflict

Japanese Americans - Legal status, laws, etc

Internment camps

Government attorneys

Employees

World War, 1939-1945 - Concentration camps - United States

Japanese Americans - Legal status, laws, etc - History - 20th century

Japanese Americans - Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945

Government attorneys - Psychology

Government attorneys - United States - History - 20th century

History

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION: The WRA and Japanese America -- BOOK ONE: JERRY HOUSEL AT HEART MOUNTAIN IN WYOMING -- CHAPTER ONE: Late October 1942 --



CHAPTER TWO: November 1942 -- CHAPTER THREE: February 1943 -- CHAPTER FOUR: March 1943 -- CHAPTER FIVE: May-June 1943 -- BOOK TWO: TED HAAS AND THOMAS MASUDA AT POSTON IN ARIZONA -- CHAPTER SIX: Late August 1942 -- CHAPTER SEVEN: November 1942 -- CHAPTER EIGHT: February 1943 -- CHAPTER NINE: June 1943 -- CHAPTER TEN: July 1943 -- BOOK THREE: JAMES HENDRICK TERRY AT GILA RIVER IN ARIZONA -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: December 1942 -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Late January 1943 -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Late February 1943 -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: May 1943 -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: December 1943 -- EPILOGUE -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Notes.

Sommario/riassunto

"In the Japanese American relocation camps of World War II, internees could, on any given day, be both clients and victims of their assigned War Relocation Authority lawyers. The morally ambiguous remit of these attorneys was wide and often contradictory, including overseeing the day-to-day administration of the camps, settling internal disputes between inmates, managing conflict between detainees and their government captors, and providing legal representation for prisoners outside of the camps. In re-creating the daily lives of these WRA attorneys, Eric L. Muller, a leading expert on Japanese American relocation and internment during World War II, seeks to capture historical subjects as three-dimensional, flawed human beings"--