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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Japanese American"”.
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Japanese American Internment: A Great Injustice
The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II (WWII) is a period in American history that is generally not given due attention. The purpose of this essay is to research and gain understanding of how such an incident could take place, what internees had to go through, and the impact it …
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Japanese American Internment: A Tragedy of War
<p>Japanese American internment in the United States during World War II affected thousands of lives for generations yet it remains hidden in historical memory. The study of Japanese American internment provides a historical catalyst for research and introspection about democracy, citizenship, and …
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The rhetoric of identity in Japanese American writings, 1948-1988
I examine the rhetoric of identity in Japanese American writings (1948-1988), focusing on two questions: How did Japanese American writers characterize Japanese Americans? Why did they characterize them in the ways they did? The introduction ("The Making of a Japanese American Identity") presents …
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A symphony of voices: digital and visual narratives of Japanese American incarceration
… official narrative and counter-narratives from Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII, along with creative sections that focus on my experiences as a person of Japanese descent, both growing up in the Deep South and visiting the individual camps during a cross country research trip. The …
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An Analysis of Modified Material Culture from Amache: Investigating the Landscape of Japanese American Internment
… function. Archaeological research at the Japanese American internment camp in Granada, Colorado, called Amache, has recently uncovered artifacts featuring evidence of modification. Previous studies at internment camps have failed to include a comprehensive analysis of these artifacts; …
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An Ambitious Social Experiment: Education in Japanese-American Internment Camps, 1942-1945 by Christopher Su.
… government had detained her because of her Japanese ancestry. Between 1942 and 1945, the United States government removed more than 110,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry residing on the west coast to remote relocation centers located in the barren mountainous states of the American west. …
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Japanese American Cultural Identity: The Role of WWII, Internment, and the 3/11 Disaster in Japan
<p>This research explores the nature of Japanese American cultural identity through an examination of the historical contexts of WWII, internment, and the 3/11 disasters in Japan. Interview data was analyzed using both interpretive and critical paradigms. I then utilized the Communication Theory of …
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A cascade of failures: the U.S. Army and the Japanese-American internment decision in World War II
… Coast Issei and Nisei remains a tragic moment in American history. It has long been viewed by historians as a singular act of mass social and political pressure to remove a racially constructed social group from the area, but it was carried out by the United States Army under the direction of the …
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Life at Heart Mountain : A Dynamic Network Model of a Japanese American Community during World War II
… doctoral dissertation in the field of North American Studies utilizes historical big data and dynamic network analysis to study the Japanese American community of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center during their World War II incarceration. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the …
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The Japanese-American dilemma: A comparison of their relationship within George Modelski's theoretical framework of long cycles
… of this thesis is to address the nature of Japanese-American bilateral relations in the twentieth century. An adaptation of George Modelski's theory of global long cycles is the tool used to analyze the relationship. This adaptation gives a broader evaluation of the relationship and provides …
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Korean Soil, Japanese Faces, American Empire: Repatriation and the Korean War Experiences of Japanese Laborers and Japanese American Soldiers
… the Korean War experiences of two ethnically Japanese groups that served the US military on the Korean Peninsula – second-generation Japanese American (Nisei) soldiers in the US Military Intelligence Service (MIS) and Japanese laborers – to demonstrate the salience of citizenship in the …
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Life-Story Book Program: An Art Narrative Approach to Make a Life-Story Book of Japanese American Former Internees
… United States. This study will be conducted on Japanese Americans who were former internees in concentration camps during WWII. Many former internees have not discussed their experiences with others because of cultural rules and lack of social interest. These survivors are growing older and …
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The Role of Amache Family Objects in the Japanese American Internment Experience: Examined Through Object Biography and Object Agency
<p>This project investigates the meaning of Japanese American families' personal possessions associated with internment through the concepts of object biography and object agency. It uses material culture analysis to help anthropologists understand the Japanese American internment experience, …
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Chinese-American and Japanese-American college students' perceptions and attitudes: Asian heritage in contact with the American cultural environment
"Ten Chinese American and ten Japanese American students were interviewed individually and in a group setting to record their perceptions regarding conflicts between their Asian heritage and the American environment. This qualitative study recorded the conflicting perceptions which illustrate the …
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Winning the hearts and minds of the Chinese people : a study of Japanese, American, Kuomintang and Communist propaganda, 1937-1945
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1992.
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Sowing The Seeds of War: The New York Times' Coverage of Japanese-American Tensions, A Prelude to Conflict in the Pacific, 1920-1941
… of this project was to see if the Times gave Americans an accurate picture of the relationship between the two countries or to determine if there was a lapse in coverage exhibiting negligence on the part of this prominent paper.</p> <p>This thesis concludes that the <em>New York Times</em> was …
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