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Part of Hill and Wang's Critical Issues Series and well established on college reading lists, PRISONERS WITHOUT TRIAL presents a concise introduction to a shameful chapter in American history: the incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. With a revised final chapter and expanded recommended readings, Roger Daniels's updated edition examines a tragic event in our nation's past and thoughtfully asks if it could happen again.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
YA-A dramatic account of the relocation of Japanese-Americans into prison camps during World War II. Daniels has written more than seven detailed chronicles on the status of Asian Americans in our society. This short narrative capsulizes information in previous volumes and cautions that, if the U.S. is not watchful, that shameful situation could happen again. This well-written title will be a good resource for students doing research papers on various social issues of World War II as well as for informative recreational reading.-Pat Royal, Crossland High School, Camp Springs, MD (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Historian Daniels (co-author of Japanese-Americans: From Relocation to Redress ) provides a concise, deft introduction to a shameful chapter in American history: the incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II. He begins by showing the pattern of historical prejudice against Asian immigrants. After the Pearl Harbor bombing, jingoism permeated America. Conservative Republicans in the War Department, aided by pundits like Walter Lippman, pushed President Roosevelt in 1942 to order the round-up of Japanese-Americans on the West Coast. The spuriousness of suspicions that the Japanese constituted a danger, Daniels notes, is shown by the lack of action against Japanese-Americans in Hawaii, where their labor was crucial. Daniels describes the Supreme Court's upholding of the evacuation, life in the drab, desolate relocation centers and the complex process of resettling the uprooted. Daniels explores the political battles that led to a 1989 law providing for redress payments of $20,000 to each person incarcerated. He warns, however, that jingoism remains as anti-Arab feelings and acts during the Gulf War showed. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
More proof that good things can come in small packages, this volume--along with two others--kicks off the publisher's ``Critical Issues'' series (consulting editor: Eric Foner), in which experts tackle historical issues whose consequences reverberate today. Not only do the authors of the first three volumes offer cogent overviews of their respective issues, but each is willing to climb out on a critical limb. Daniels (Concentration Camp USA, 1972), for instance, writing about the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during WW II, states that ``this book has tried to explain how and why the outrage happened. That is the role of the historian and his book, which is to analyze the past. But this historian feels that analyzing the past is not always enough''--and so he takes on the question of ``could it happen again?'' and concludes that there's ``an American propensity to react against `foreigners' in the United States during times of external crisis, especially when those `foreigners' have dark skins,'' and that Japanese-Americans, at least, ``would argue that what has happened before can surely happen again.'' Similarly, Kirkpatrick Sale--in The Green Revolution (ISBN: 0-8090-5218-0; paper: 0-8090-1551-X)--summarizes the modern history of American environmentalism (which he sees as dating from the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring) and indicts ``a chemical industry that has subsequently produced some 30,000 chemicals of varying degrees of toxicity''), while Anthony F.C. Wallace--in The Long, Bitter Trail (ISBN: 0-8090-6631-9; paper: 0-8090-1552-8)--studies the legacy of Andrew Jackson's cruel Indian policies and declares that ``two hundred years of national indecision about how the United States should deal with its Native Americans have not come to an end.'' A promising beginning, then, to what looks like a very fine series with a cutting edge; future volumes will include Marvin Frankel on Church & State, Michael Hunt on How We Became Involved in Vietnam, and Betty Wood on Origins of Slavery in the United States.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Short, pithy studies inaugurate a new series vetted by Eric Foner, the historian of the Reconstruction era. What mitigations can be advanced for the dispossession of the Five Civilized Tribes of Georgia and Alabama, or for the expropriation and incarceration of Japanese Americans a century later? Practically none, but perspectives on the origins of these shameful chapters in American history can at least admonish the future. Each event united strands of prejudice, panic in times of war, and outright avarice--and the victims received but slivers of compensation for their losses. The Japanese immigrants had been on the receiving end of the Hearst yellow press or of discriminatory laws for years before FDR caved in to army demands, based on the phantoms of sabotage, to uproot about 120,000 people as potential fifth columnists and park them in concentration camps. As noted by Daniels, author of several full-length studies of the affair, mid-level zealots, in the name of "military necessity," pushed a vacillating general (DeWitt) into making the decision. Restitution came only in 1988, and though it's hard to believe it could happen again, Daniels remains wary.The Indian removals of the 1830s, on the other hand, were so complete that they can't possibly happen again. A modus vivendi seemed to have settled in: Cherokee John Ross, for example, could barely be differentiated from the surrounding society. He owned slaves and ran a plantation--no saint by modern lights--but as Wallace aptly concludes, "it was not the `savagery' of the Indians that whites dreaded; it was their `civilization.'" Weaving ethnographic issues into his story, especially as perceived and written about by the not widely known Lewis Cass, the craggy-faced founder of Michigan and war secretary who carried out the removals, the author succinctly records the pressures that built up to the U.S. government's steps, some of pure chicanery, to have done with the southern Indians once and for all, some of whom (the Seminoles) were implacably hostile.Knowledgeable and well-written surveys both, these books of Daniels and Wallace presage good omens for this series, not every title of which will be an account of tragedy and injustice.--Gilbert Taylor
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Many books have been written about the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II, an injustice prompted not by military necessity but by political and racial motivations. The purpose of this volume is to tell the story in light of the redress legislation enacted in 1988, but the too brief treatment, lacking adequate citations to even the more interesting and provocative quotations, can only serve as an overview for the most casual reader. It is unfortunate that a historian like Daniels (Univ. of Cincinnati) does not provide the more substantive treatment he used in the volume he coedited with Sandra Taylor and Harry Kitano, Japanese Americans, from Relocation to Redress (Univ. of Washington Pr., 1991. rev. ed.). For more comprehensive subject and documentary coverage, consider Peter H. Irons's Justice at War ( LJ 10/1/83) and Justice Delayed (Wesleyan Univ., 1989).-- Kenneth W. Berger, Duke Univ. Lib., Durham, N.C. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
目录
Preface | p. ix |
Preface to the Revised Edition | p. xi |
1 Background for a Roundup, 1850-1941 | p. 3 |
2 The Politics of Incarceration, 1941-1942 | p. 22 |
3 Life Behind Barbed Wire, 1942-1946 | p. 49 |
4 Return to Freedom, 1942-1946 | p. 72 |
5 Rehabilitation and Redress, 1943-1990 | p. 88 |
6 Could It Happen Again? | p. 107 |
7 Epilogue: Since 1990 | p. 115 |
An Essay in Photographs | p. 123 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 139 |
Appendix Documents | p. 145 |
Index | p. 151 |