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

• Autore: Odo Franklin
• 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
• ISBN: 1-282-56696-2; 9786612566967; 1-59213-803-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823592703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Asian American history and culture.