A tragedy of democracy [electronic resource] : Japanese confinement in North America / Greg Robinson.
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TextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.Description: viii, 397 pSubject(s): - Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
- Japanese Americans -- Pacific States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Japanese Americans -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- United States
- Japanese -- Government policy -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Canada
- Pacific States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- Canada -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- 940.53/1773 22
- D769.8.A6 R64 2009eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Background to confinement -- The decision to remove ethnic Japanese from the West Coast -- Removal from the West Coast and control of ethnic Japanese outside -- The camp experience -- Military service and legal challenges -- The end of confinement and the postwar readjustment of Issei and Nisei -- Redress and the bitter heritage.
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