The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War
II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been
described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U.
S. history. Greg Robinson not only offers a bold new understanding
of these events but also studies them within a larger time frame
and from a transnational perspective. Drawing on newly discovered
material, Robinson provides a backstory of confinement that reveals
for the first time the extent of the American government's
surveillance of Japanese communities in the years leading up to war
and the construction of what officials termed "concentration camps"
for enemy aliens. He also considers the aftermath of confinement,
including the place of Japanese Americans in postwar civil rights
struggles, the long movement by former camp inmates for redress,
and the continuing role of the camps as touchstones for nationwide
commemoration and debate. Most remarkably, A Tragedy of Democracy
is the first book to analyze official policy toward West Coast
Japanese Americans within a North American context. Robinson
studies confinement on the mainland alongside events in wartime
Hawaii, where fears of Japanese Americans justified Army
dictatorship, suspension of the Constitution, and the imposition of
military tribunals. He similarly reads the treatment of Japanese
Americans against Canada's confinement of 22,000 citizens and
residents of Japanese ancestry from British Columbia. A Tragedy of
Democracy recounts the expulsion of almost 5,000 Japanese from
Mexico's Pacific Coast and the poignant story of the Japanese Latin
Americans who were kidnapped from their homes and interned in the
United States. Approaching Japanese confinement as a continental
and international phenomenon, Robinson offers a truly kaleidoscopic
understanding of its genesis and outcomes. The confinement of some
120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the
Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst
official civil rights violation of modern U. S. history. Greg
Robinson not only offers a bold new understanding of these events
but also studies them within a larger time frame and from a
transnational perspective. Drawing on newly discovered material,
Robinson provides a backstory of confinement that reveals for the
first time the extent of the American government's surveillance of
Japanese communities in the years leading up to war and the
construction of what officials termed "concentration camps" for
enemy aliens. He also considers the aftermath of confinement,
including the place of Japanese Americans in postwar civil rights
struggles, the long movement by former camp inmates for redress,
and the continuing role of the camps as touchstones for nationwide
commemoration and debate. Most remarkably, A Tragedy of Democracy
is the first book to analyze official policy toward West Coast
Japanese Americans within a North American context. Robinson
studies confinement on the mainland alongside events in wartime
Hawaii, where fears of Japanese Americans justified Army
dictatorship, suspension of the Constitution, and the imposition of
military tribunals. He similarly reads the treatment of Japanese
Americans against Canada's confinement of 22,000 citizens and
residents of Japanese ancestry from British Columbia. A Tragedy of
Democracy recounts the expulsion of almost 5,000 Japanese from
Mexico's Pacific Coast and the poignant story of the Japanese Latin
Americans who were kidnapped from their homes and interned in the
United States. Approaching Japanese confinement as a continental
and international phenomenon, Robinson offers a truly kaleidoscopic
understanding of its genesis and outcomes.
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