LEADER 04956nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910953325903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9798216016342 024 7 $a10.5040/9798216016342 035 $a(CKB)2440000000012871 035 $a(OCoLC)399873851 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10271300 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000378029 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11303074 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000378029 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10339163 035 $a(PQKB)10171991 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3001277 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10271300 035 $a(OCoLC)929145776 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3001277 035 $a(OCoLC)1119119979 035 $a(DLC)BP9798216016342BC 035 $a(BIP)105230608 035 $a(BIP)36010942 035 $a(EXLCZ)992440000000012871 100 $a20080226d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSoldiers of conscience $eJapanese American military resisters in World War II /$fShirley Castelnuovo ; foreword by Cedrick Shimo 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cPraeger Security International,$d2008. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2024 215 $a1 online resource (195 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780313353314 311 08$a031335331X 311 08$a9780313353307 311 08$a0313353301 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Foreword by Cedrick Shimo -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Terminology and Names -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Presumption of Disloyalty -- Chapter 2. The Pre-Detention Inductees: Individual Conscientious Resistance -- Chapter 3. The Fort McClellan Conscientious Resisters -- Chapter 4. The Response to Fort McClellan -- Chapter 5. Renunciation/Repatriation in the Military -- A Photo Essay -- Chapter 6. Company of the Damned -- Chapter 7. Renunciation/Repatriation at Fort Meade -- Chapter 8. Partial Vindication -- Chapter 9. The Conscientious Resisters and the Japanese American Community -- Chapter 10. Military Service and the Right of Conscience -- Notes -- Index. 330 $aJapan's attack on Pearl Harbor unleashed rampant racism and distrust towards all things alien, and it raised perplexing questions of national identity that still reverberate. Persons of Japanese ancestry were the victims of racist acts and governmental loyalty investigations, and, finally, of exclusion and imprisonment. The majority of Japanese Americans complied with government actions, including the drafting of Japanese Americans into military service, often viewing such service as an opportunity to display their allegiance to the United States. However, some 200 Japanese Americans drafted into the Army refused to serve in combat while their families languished in internment camps. Here, for the first time, the resisters' story is told in vivid detail, following many of them into the post-war years and assessing the ramifications of their actions on their lives.The history of Japanese Americans in World War II does not record the stories of these resisters. It does not mention the War Department Special Organization to which many of them were transferred or the individuals who were tried and sentenced by military courts to long prison terms. The 200 conscientious military resisters felt betrayed by the government and viewed the decision to imprison Japanese Americans as an immoral acquiescence to West Coast racism.Castelnuovo does not abandon the narrative with the end of World War II. Instead, she follows many of the resisters into the post-war years, assessing the ramifications of their actions on their lives as individuals and within the broader context of the Japanese American community. Happily, most of the resisters were eventually re-embraced by their community, but, until now, they have been forgotten by students of World War II. That is an oversight Soldiers of Conscience will certainly remedy. 606 $aInsubordination$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aJapanese Americans$xSocial conditions$y20th century 606 $aSelective conscientious objection$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xParticipation, Japanese American 607 $aUnited States$xArmed Forces$xJapanese Americans$xSocial conditions$y20th century 615 0$aInsubordination$xHistory 615 0$aJapanese Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aSelective conscientious objection$xHistory 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xParticipation, Japanese American. 676 $a940.54/04 700 $aCastelnuovo$b Shirley$f1930-$01798470 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953325903321 996 $aSoldiers of conscience$94341256 997 $aUNINA