Redress

The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations

John Tateishi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2024 | New edition
Heyday Books (Verlag)
978-1-59714-646-3 (ISBN)

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This is the unlikely but true story of the Japanese American Citizens League's fight for an official government apology and compensation for the imprisonment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Author John Tateishi, himself the leader of the JACL Redress Committee for many years, is first to admit that the task was herculea

The story of how nearly 100,000 Americans achieved reparations and an official apology for one of the most shameful episodes in US history.

"Redress gives us an insider's step-by-step view of how a bold and determined group of Japanese Americans achieved an unprecedented goal that, at the beginning, looked impossible. We have a lot to learn from their extraordinary success." —Adam Hochschild

For decades the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans remained hidden from the historical record, its shattering effects kept silent. But in the 1970s the Japanese American Citizens League headed a campaign for an official government apology and monetary compensation. Redress is John Tateishi's firsthand account of this against-all-odds campaign. Tateishi, who led the JACL Redress Committee for many years, admits the task was herculean. The campaign sought an unprecedented admission of wrongdoing from Congress. It depended on a unified effort but began with an acutely divided community; for many, the shame of "camp" was so deep that they could not even speak of it. And Tateishi knew that the campaign would succeed only if the public learned that there had been concentration camps on U.S. soil.

Redress is the story of a community reckoning with what it means to be both culturally Japanese and American citizens, and what it means to prevent terrible harms from happening again. This edition features a new preface about the lessons Tateishi's story might have for reparations efforts today.

John Tateishi, born in Los Angeles in 1939, was incarcerated from ages three to six at Manzanar, one of America's ten World War II concentration camps. He studied English Literature at UC Berkeley and attended UC Davis for graduate studies. He played important roles in leading the campaign for Japanese American redress, and as the director of the Japanese American Citizens League, he used the lessons of the campaign to ensure that the rights of this nation's Arab and Muslim communities were protected after 9/11.

Preface to the 2024 EditionPreface to the First Edition

1. BEGINNINGS (1970-1976)

The Birth of the Movement
My Journey to the JACL
Gaman
Defining the Issue
The Testing Ground
Questions 27 and 28
The Message
1976 and the Sacramento Convention
Mike Masaoka
The Turning Point

2. LAUNCHING THE CAMPAIGN (1977-1978)

Clifford Uyeda
The Candidate
The Guidelines
The Two-Part Plan
The JACL's Redress President
The Opening Salvo from Salt Lake City
The Committee

3. THE STRATEGY (1978-1979)

Ernest Weiner
The Big Four
The Most Critical Decision
'Like 1942 All Over Again'
The Media Breakthrough
Campaign Backlash
The Redress Staff
The Flag and Apple Pie
The Grassroots Machine

4. THE FIRST LEGISLATIVE FIGHT (1979-1980)

The Waiting Game
Introduction of the Commission Bill
The Opening Rounds
Could a Nation Judge Itself?
An American Testimonial
My Colliding Worlds
The First Congressional Hearings
Our Days of Infamy
Chaos
Fulfilling the Promise
The Next Phase
Changing the Odds
Ronald Reagan, the Unknown

5. THE COMMISSION (1981-1983)

Formation
A Gamble
The Hearings Begin
The Community Speaks
Karl Bendetsen
John McCloy
Cambridge
Commission Deliberations
The CWRIC Report and Recommendations
Hohri v. U.S.

6. THE FINAL STAGE (1983-1988)

One Vote at a Time
Coram Nobis
Precedent Strategy
Caught in a Double Vortex
The Meanest Little Town in America
Changes
H.R. 442
Moving On
A Successful Conclusion
Japanese Latin Americans
How Do You Fix Something So Broken?
Finding Our Way Back

7. 9/11: LESSONS FROM THE PAST (2001-2007)

Another Day of Infamy
Journey's End

Acknowledgements

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	30.07.2024
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkeley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 215 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-59714-646-3 / 1597146463
ISBN-13	978-1-59714-646-3 / 9781597146463
Zustand	Neuware