| American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II Contributor(s): Muller, Eric L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807885622 ISBN-13: 9780807885628 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $26.13 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: October 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Legal History - History | United States - 20th Century - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies |
| Dewey: 940.531 |
| Physical Information: 216 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 1940's - Ethnic Orientation - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. Muller relates the untold story of exactly how military and civilian bureaucrats judged these tens of thousands of American citizens during wartime. This is the only study of the Japanese American internment to examine the complex inner workings of the most draconian system of loyalty screening that the American government has ever deployed against its own citizens. At a time when our nation again finds itself beset by worries about an enemy within considered identifiable by race or religion, this volume offers crucial lessons from a recent and disastrous history. |