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Democratizing the Enemy

The Japanese American Internment

By: Brian Masaru Hayashi

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Democratizing the Enemy

The Japanese American Internment

By: Brian Masaru Hayashi

During World War II some 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and detained in concentration camps in several states. These Japanese Americans lost millions of dollars in property and were forced to live in so-called "assembly centers" surrounded by barbed wire fences and armed sentries. In this insightful and groundbreaking work, Brian Hayashi reevaluates the three-year ordeal of interred Japanese Americans. Using previously undiscovered documents, he examines the forces behind the U.S. government's decision to establish internment camps. His conclusion: the motives of government officials and top military brass likely transcended the standard explanations of racism, wartime hysteria, and leadership failure. Among the other surprising factors that played into the decision, Hayashi writes, were land development in the American West and plans for the American occupation of Japan. What was the long-term impact of America's actions? While many historians have explored that question, Hayashi takes a fresh look at how U.S. concentration camps affected not only their victims and American civil liberties, but also people living in locations as diverse as American Indian reservations and northeast Thailand.

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Princeton University Press

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140083774X

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9781400837748

Asian American Spies

How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory

By: Brian Masaru Hayashi

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Asian American Spies

How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory

By: Brian Masaru Hayashi

Asian American Spies' is a study of Asian Americans in the Office of Strategic Services. The text challenges the Asian American Minority stereotype that they are all loyal citizens by showing Asian Americans on both sides of World War II and shows that Euroamerican leaders of the intelligence agency understood race as not a fixed concept.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190092858

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9780190092856

Asian American Spies

How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory

By: Brian Masaru Hayashi

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Asian American Spies

How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory

By: Brian Masaru Hayashi

A recovery of the vital role Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans played in US intelligence services in Asia during World War II. Spies deep behind enemy lines; double agents; a Chinese American James Bond; black propaganda radio broadcasters; guerrilla fighters; pirates; smugglers; prostitutes and dancers as spies; and Asian Americans collaborating with Axis Powers. All these colorful individuals form the story of Asian Americans in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of today's CIA. Brian Masaru Hayashi brings to light for the first time the role played by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans in America's first centralized intelligence agency in its fight against the Imperial Japanese forces in east Asia during World War II. They served deep behind enemy lines gathering intelligence for American and Chinese troops locked in a desperate struggle against Imperial Japanese forces on the Asian continent. Other Asian Americans produced and disseminated statements by bogus peace groups inside the Japanese empire to weaken the fighting resolve of the Japanese. Still others served with guerrilla forces attacking enemy supply and communication lines behind enemy lines. Engaged in this deadly conflict, these Asian Americans agents encountered pirates, smugglers, prostitutes, and dancers serving as the enemy's spies, all the while being subverted from within the OSS by a double agent and without by co-ethnic collaborators in wartime Shanghai. Drawing on recently declassified documents, Asian American Spies challenges the romanticized and stereotyped image of these Chinese, Japanese, and Korean American agents--the Model Minority-while offering a fresh perspective on the Allied victory in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

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Oxford University Press

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0190092866

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9780190092863

Democratizing the Enemy

The Japanese American Internment

By: Brian Masaru Hayashi

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The Japanese American Internment

By: Brian Masaru Hayashi

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Princeton University Press

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The Morality of War - Second Edition

By: Brian Orend

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The Morality of War - Second Edition

By: Brian Orend

The first edition of The Morality of War was one of the most widely-read and successful books ever written on the topic. In this second edition, Brian Orend builds on the substantial strengths of the first, adding important new material on: cyber-warfare; drone attacks; the wrap-up of Iraq and Afghanistan; conflicts in Libya and Syria; and protracted struggles (like the Arab-Israeli conflict). Updated and streamlined throughout, the book offers new research tools and case studies, while keeping the winning blend of theory and history featured in the first edition. This book remains an engaging and comprehensive examination of the ethics, and practice, of war and peace in today’s world.

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Broadview Press

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1460403878

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9781460403877

For the Sake of Our Japanese Brethren

Assimilation, Nationalism, and Protestantism Among the Japanese of Los Angeles, 1895-1942

By: Brian Masaru Hayashi

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For the Sake of Our Japanese Brethren

Assimilation, Nationalism, and Protestantism Among the Japanese of Los Angeles, 1895-1942

By: Brian Masaru Hayashi

The first chapter, set in 1942, describes how the Protestant Japanese Americans in internment camps were divided into pro- and anti-United States factions.

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0804723745

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Pacific America

Histories of Transoceanic Crossings

By: Lon Kurashige

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Pacific America

Histories of Transoceanic Crossings

By: Lon Kurashige

In recent times, the Asia-Pacific region has far surpassed Europe in terms of reciprocal trade with the United States, and since the 1980s immigrants from Asia entering the United States have exceeded their counterparts from Europe, reversing a longstanding historical trend and making Asian Americans the country’s fastest growing racial group. What does transpacific history look like if the arc of the story is extended to the present? The essays in this volume offer answers to this question challenging current assumptions about transpacific relations. Many of these assumptions are expressed through fear: that the ascendance of China threatens a U.S.-led world system and undermines domestic economies; that immigrants subvert national unity; and that globalization, for all its transcending of international, cultural, and racial differences, generates its own forms of prejudice and social divisions that reproduce global and national inequalities. The contributors make clear that these fears associated with, and induced by, pacific integration are not new. Rather, they are the most recent manifestation of international, racial, and cultural conflicts that have driven transpacific relations in its premodern and especially modern iterations. Pacific America differs from other books that are beginning to flesh out the transnational history of the Pacific Ocean in that it is more self-consciously a people’s history. While diplomatic and economic relations are addressed, the chapters are particularly concerned with histories from the “bottom up,” including attention to social relations and processes, individual and group agency, racial and cultural perception, and collective memory. These perspectives are embodied in the four sections focusing on China and the early modern world, circuits of migration and trade, racism and imperialism, and the significance of Pacific islands. The last section on Pacific Islanders avoids a common failing in popular perception that focuses on both sides of the Pacific Ocean while overlooking the many islands in between. The chapters in this section take on one of the key challenges for transpacific history in connecting the migration and imperial histories of the United States, Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, and other nations, with the history of Oceania.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824855795

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Book's by Brian Masaru Hayashi

Democratizing the Enemy

Democratizing the Enemy

Asian American Spies

Asian American Spies

Asian American Spies

Asian American Spies

Democratizing the Enemy

Democratizing the Enemy

The Morality of War - Second Edition

The Morality of War - Second Edition

For the Sake of Our Japanese Brethren

For the Sake of Our Japanese Brethren

Pacific America

Pacific America

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