Jim and Jap Crow (eBook)

A Cultural History of 1940s Interracial America

Matthew M. Briones (Autor)

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2012
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4221-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. government rounded up more than one hundred thousand Japanese Americans and sent them to internment camps. One of those internees was Charles Kikuchi. In thousands of diary pages, he documented his experiences in the camps, his resettlement in Chicago and drafting into the Army on the eve of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his postwar life as a social worker in New York City. Kikuchi's diaries bear witness to a watershed era in American race relations, and expose both the promise and the hypocrisy of American democracy. Jim and Jap Crow follows Kikuchi's personal odyssey among fellow Japanese American intellectuals, immigrant activists, Chicago School social scientists, everyday people on Chicago's South Side, and psychologically scarred veterans in the hospitals of New York. The book chronicles a remarkable moment in America's history in which interracial alliances challenged the limits of the elusive democratic ideal, and in which the nation was forced to choose between civil liberty and the fearful politics of racial hysteria. It was an era of world war and the atomic bomb, desegregation in the military but Jim and Jap Crow elsewhere in America, and a hopeful progressivism that gave way to Cold War paranoia. Jim and Jap Crow looks at Kikuchi's life and diaries as a lens through which to observe the possibilities, failures, and key conversations in a dynamic multiracial America.

Autor

Matthew M. Briones is assistant professor of American history and the College at the University of Chicago.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 3 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American progressives • African Americans • African American soldiers • alienable rights • Alien Registration Act • America • American democracy • Americanism • American race relations • americans • An American Dilemma • Anecdote • Anti-Japanese sentiment • A. Philip Randolph • asians • Black Metropolis • black people • camp life • Camp Savage • Career • Carey McWilliams (journalist) • Carlos Bulosan • Charles Kikuchi • Chester Himes • Chicago • Chicago School • Chinese Americans • civil liberty • Cold War ideology • Color line (civil rights issue) • Committee on Civil Rights • communism • conservative ideology • Democracy • Demography • Department of Justice • Diary • dichotomy • Dorothy Swaine Thomas • Double V Campaign • East Coast Schools • education waiver • Enemy Aliens • Epithet • ethnic group • Ethnicity • Exclusion • Executive Order 9066 • Fair Employment Practices Commission • FBI • FDR • Fifth Column • filiopietism • filipinos • Fred Korematsu • george schuyler • German Americans • Gila River Relocation Center • Graduate school • Harry Truman • Headline • Hisaye Yamamoto • His Family • Housing discrimination (United States) • hypocrisy • Ideology • Immigrant • Immigration • Immigration Act of 1924 • Individualism • Intellectual • Intelligentsia • internment • internment camp • Internment of Japanese Americans • interracial alliances • interracial conflicts • I Wish (manhwa) • Japanese • Japanese American • Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study • japanese americans • Japanese descent • jerome robbins • JERS • kibei • laborer • Louis Adamic • Louis Wirth • Manzanar • McCarthyism • mexicans • military hierarchy • Military Intelligence Service Language School • Military Service • Minorities • minority group • Mr. • multiracial America • narrative • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • Native Son • newspaper • nisei • Nisei intellectuals • Oppression • Orwellian • participant observation • Patriotism • Paul Robeson • Pearl Harbor • personal history • pluralist advocates • Politics • Population Transfer • Precedent • Prejudice • progressivism • proletarian literature • Publication • Race • Race (human categorization) • Race relations • Racial Discrimination • Racial Equality • racial hierarchy • Racialization • Racial segregation • Racism • racism in the united states • Religious discrimination • resentment • resettlement • resettlers • Segregation • sibling • Social Science • Society of the United States • Sociologists • Sociology • Special Collections • St. Clair Drake • subversive aliens • Tanforan horse stalls • THE CHICAGO DEFENDER • The Other Hand • The Various • Toshio Mori • un-american • Urban Spaces • W. E. B. Du Bois • West Coast • white americans • white people • white supremacy • William Saroyan • W. I. Thomas • World War II • Writing • Yuji Ichioka • Yuri Kochiyama • zora neale hurston
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4221-2 / 1400842212
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4221-6 / 9781400842216