03198nam 2200637Ia 450 991081454530332120200520144314.0979-88-908820-2-80-8078-8527-4(CKB)1000000000487683(EBL)361356(OCoLC)476190295(SSID)ssj0000102211(PQKBManifestationID)11113742(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102211(PQKBWorkID)10043834(PQKB)11495167(Au-PeEL)EBL361356(CaPaEBR)ebr10273459(CaONFJC)MIL930008(MiAaPQ)EBC361356(EXLCZ)99100000000048768320070319d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican inquisition the hunt for Japanese American disloyalty in World War II /Eric L. Muller1st ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20071 online resource (214 p.)H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.1-4696-4190-9 0-8078-3173-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-182) and index.Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Japanese Americans before the War; 3 Presumed Loyal, Presumed Disloyal; 4 Pressures on the Presumption of Disloyalty; 5 The Loyalty Questionnaires of 1943; 6 Processing Loyalty at the Japanese American Joint Board; 7 Processing Loyalty at the Provost Marshal General's Office; 8 Processing Loyalty at the War Relocation Authority; 9 Processing Loyalty at the Western Defense Command; 10 Defending (and Distorting) Loyalty Adjudication in Court; 11 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; IndexWhen the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. In American Inquisition, Eric Muller relates the untold story of exactly how military and civilian bureaucrats judged these tens of thousands of American citizens during wartime. Some citizens were deemed loyal and were freed, but one in four was declared disloyal to America and condemned to repressive segregation in the camps or barred from war-related jobs. Using cultural and relH. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.World War, 1939-1945Japanese AmericansJapanese AmericansForced removal and internment, 1942-1945Internal securityUnited StatesHistory20th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government1933-1945World War, 1939-1945Japanese Americans.Japanese AmericansForced removal and internment, 1942-1945.Internal securityHistory940.531773Muller Eric L1643130MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814545303321American inquisition3988187UNINA