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After camp : portraits in midcentury Japanese American life and politics / Greg Robinson.

Author/creator Robinson, Greg, 1966-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2012.
Descriptionviii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content ebrary
Subject(s)
Contents Resettlement and new lives -- Political science? FDR, Japanese Americans and the postwar dispersion of minorities -- Forrest LaViolette: race, internationalism, and assimilation -- Japantown born and reborn: comparing the resettlement experience of Issei and Nisei in Detroit, New York, and Los Angeles -- The varieties of assimilation -- Birth of a citizen: Miné Okubo and the politics of symbolism -- The "new Nisei" and identity politics -- Interethnic politics -- Japanese Americans and Mexican Americans: the limits of interracial collaboration -- From kuichi to comrades: Japanese American views of Jews in the 1930s and 1940s -- African American supporters of Japanese Americans, and the shift in Nisei views of African Americans -- African American responses to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans -- The Los Angeles defender: Hugh E. MacBeth and Japanese Americans -- Crusaders in Gotham: the JACD and interracial activism -- The rise and fall of postwar coalitions for civil rights -- Nisei and the postwar struggle for civil rights: from Oyama to Brown -- An uneasy alliance: Blacks and Japanese Americans, 1954-1965 -- Epilogue.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011030474
ISBN9780520271586 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520271580 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780520271593 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0520271599 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40020606692

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