03397nam 22006135 450 991078330830332120230617023605.00-8135-7110-30-8135-3522-010.36019/9780813571102(CKB)1000000000031392(EBL)3032100(OCoLC)58752355(SSID)ssj0000244467(PQKBManifestationID)11200466(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000244467(PQKBWorkID)10190793(PQKB)10852837(MiAaPQ)EBC3032100(MdBmJHUP)muse52911(DE-B1597)530071(DE-B1597)9780813571102(OCoLC)1156957486(EXLCZ)99100000000003139220200623h20032003 fg 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrServing Our Country Japanese American Women in the Military during World War II /Brenda Lee MooreNew Brunswick, NJ :Rutgers University Press,[2003]©20031 online resource (237 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8135-3277-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-201) and index.Front matter --Contents --Tables --Preface and Acknowledgments --Chapter 1. Introduction --Chapter 2. Before the War --Chapter 3. Contradictions and Paradoxes --Chapter 4. Women’s Army Corps Recruitment of Nisei Women --Chapter 5. Service in the Women’s Army Corps --Chapter 6. Commissions in the Army Medical Corps --Chapter 7. The Postwar Years --Appendix: Wacs Who Entered the Army from Hawaii, December 1944 --Notes --Glossary --Bibliography --Index --About the AuthorFollowing the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and America's declaration of war on Japan, the U.S. War Department allowed up to five hundred second-generation, or "Nisei," Japanese American women to enlist in the Women's Army Corps and, in smaller numbers, in the Army Medical Corps. Through in-depth interviews with surviving Nisei women who served, Brenda L. Moore provides fascinating firsthand accounts of their experiences. Interested primarily in shedding light on the experiences of Nisei women during the war, the author argues for the relevance of these experiences to larger questions of American race relations and views on gender and their intersections, particularly in the country's highly charged wartime atmosphere. Uncovering a page in American history that has been obscured, Moore adds nuance to our understanding of the situation of Japanese Americans during the war.Japanese American women soldiersUnited StatesJapanese-American womenHistoryWorld War, 1939-1945Participation, Japanese AmericanUnited StatesEthnic relationsJapanese American women soldiersJapanese-American womenHistory.World War, 1939-1945Participation, Japanese American.940.54/04Moore Brenda Leeauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1486887DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910783308303321Serving Our Country3706509UNINA