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No sword to bury : Japanese Americans in Hawai'i during World War II / / Franklin Odo



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Autore: Odo Franklin Visualizza persona
Titolo: No sword to bury : Japanese Americans in Hawai'i during World War II / / Franklin Odo Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, c2004
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
Disciplina: 305.895/60969/09041
Soggetto topico: Japanese Americans - Hawaii
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
World War, 1939-1945 - Participation, Japanese American
Soggetto geografico: Hawaii Ethnic relations
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-314) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction: The Making of a Model Minority; 1 Immigrant Parents; 2 Generation on Trial: The 1920's; 3 Before the Fire: The 1930's; 4 Pearl Harbor; 5 Hawai`i Territorial Guard; 6 The Varsity Victory Volunteers; 7 Schofield Barracks; 8 The Front Lines: Battlefront and Home Front; 9 After the War; Conclusion; Appendix: Roster of Varsity Victory Volunteers; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index
Sommario/riassunto: When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and immediately called upon to defend the Hawaiian islands against invasion. In a few weeks, however, the military government questioned their loyalty and disarmed them. In No Sword to Bury, Franklin Odo places the largely untold story of the wartime experience of these young men in the context of the community created by their immigrant families and its relationship to the larger, white-dominated society. At the heart of the book are vivid oral historical
Titolo autorizzato: No sword to bury  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-56696-2
9786612566967
1-59213-803-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910823592703321
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Serie: Asian American history and culture.