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In the early months of 1942, the United States government assembled and shipped off to concentration camps 112,000 men, women, and children -- the entire Japanese-American population of the three Pacific Coast states of California, Oregon, and an Washington. This book is an attempt to tell their story. It is the story of a national calamity commonly referred to as 'our worst wartime mistake.' This tendency to write off the evacuation as a 'mistake' is to obscure its it true significance. The legal atrocity which was committed against the Japanese-Americans was the logical outgrowth of over three centuries of American experience which taught Americans to regard the United States as a white man's country, in which nonwhites 'had no rights which the white man was bound to respect' (Dred Scott decision). Although it affected only a tiny segment of our population, it reflected one of the central themes of American history -- the theme of white supremacy.… (mais)
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
For Sarah Elizabeth Daniels at long last
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
In the early months of 1942 the United States government assembled and shipped off to concentration camps 112,000 men, women, and children, the entire Japanese American population of the three Pacific Coast states of California, Oregon, and Washington. [Introduction]
An accident of publishing has made it possible to expand significantly a work almost a decade old. [Introduction to the Second Edition]
According to the Census of 1940 there were 126,948 Japanese Americans in the continental United States; they comprised less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the total population. [Chapter 1]
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The issue is to acknowledge the mistake by providing proper redress for the victims of the injustice, and thereby make make [sic] such injustices less likely to recur."
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
An expansion of the author's Concentration Camps USA: Japanese Americans and World War II: Chapters 1-8 are the same, Chapter 9 is new, the epilogue has been recast and expanded, and additional end matter is included.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
In the early months of 1942, the United States government assembled and shipped off to concentration camps 112,000 men, women, and children -- the entire Japanese-American population of the three Pacific Coast states of California, Oregon, and an Washington. This book is an attempt to tell their story. It is the story of a national calamity commonly referred to as 'our worst wartime mistake.' This tendency to write off the evacuation as a 'mistake' is to obscure its it true significance. The legal atrocity which was committed against the Japanese-Americans was the logical outgrowth of over three centuries of American experience which taught Americans to regard the United States as a white man's country, in which nonwhites 'had no rights which the white man was bound to respect' (Dred Scott decision). Although it affected only a tiny segment of our population, it reflected one of the central themes of American history -- the theme of white supremacy.
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