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Author Muller, Eric L.

Title American inquisition : the hunt for Japanese American disloyalty in World War II / Eric L. Muller.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  940.531773 M913a 2007    ---  Available
Description 197 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
Note "A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-182) and index.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Japanese Americans before the war -- 3. Presumed loyal, presumed disloyal -- 4. Pressures on the presumption of disloyalty -- 5. The loyalty questionnaires of 1943 -- 6. Processing loyalty at the Japanese American Joint Board -- 7. Processing loyalty at the Provost Marshal General's office -- 8. Processing loyalty at the war relocation authority -- 9. Processing loyalty at the western defense command -- 10. Defending (and distorting) loyalty adjudication in court -- 11. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans.
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Internal security -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
ISBN 0807831735 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807831731 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000041422442
NZ1 11304346

 
    
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