LEADER 03225nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910781923603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a979-88-908820-2-8 010 $a0-8078-8527-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000487683 035 $a(EBL)361356 035 $a(OCoLC)476190295 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102211 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11113742 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102211 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10043834 035 $a(PQKB)11495167 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL361356 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10273459 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL930008 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC361356 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000487683 100 $a20070319d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican inquisition$b[electronic resource] $ethe hunt for Japanese American disloyalty in World War II /$fEric L. Muller 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (214 p.) 225 1 $aH. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series 300 $a"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso. 311 $a1-4696-4190-9 311 $a0-8078-3173-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [177]-182) and index. 327 $aContents; 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; Index 330 $aWhen the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. In American Inquisition, Eric Muller relates the untold story of exactly how military and civilian bureaucrats judged these tens of thousands of American citizens during wartime. Some citizens were deemed loyal and were freed, but one in four was declared disloyal to America and condemned to repressive segregation in the camps or barred from war-related jobs. Using cultural and rel 410 0$aH. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series. 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xJapanese Americans 606 $aJapanese Americans$xForced removal and internment, 1942-1945 606 $aInternal security$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1933-1945 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xJapanese Americans. 615 0$aJapanese Americans$xForced removal and internment, 1942-1945. 615 0$aInternal security$xHistory 676 $a940.531773 700 $aMuller$b Eric L$01516076 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781923603321 996 $aAmerican inquisition$93752306 997 $aUNINA