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No Sword To Bury - Japanese Americans In Hawaii (Paperback)
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No Sword To Bury - Japanese Americans In Hawaii (Paperback)
Series: Asian American History & Cultu
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When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American
college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and
immediately called upon to defend the Hawaiian islands against
invasion. In a few weeks, however, the military government
questioned their loyalty and disarmed them. In No Sword to Bury,
Franklin Odo places the largely untold story of the wartime
experience of these young men in the context of the community
created by their immigrant families and its relationship to the
larger, white-dominated society. At the heart of the book are vivid
oral histories that recall their service on the home front in the
Varsity Victory Volunteers, a non-military group dedicated to
public works, as well as in the segregated 442nd Regimental Combat
Team. Illuminating a critical moment in ethnic identity formation
among this first generation of Americans of Japanese descent (the
nisei), Odo shows how the war-time service and the post-war success
of these men contributed to the simplistic view of Japanese
Americans as a model minority in Hawai'i.
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