Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 498 g
Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 498 g
Reihe: Studies in the History of Education
ISBN: 978-0-415-93234-9
Verlag: Routledge
Wherever I Go I'll Always Be a Loyal American is the story of how the Seattle public schools responded to the news of its Japanese American (Nisei) students' internment upon the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 14, 1942. Drawing upon previously untapped letters and compositions written by the students themselves during the time in which the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the internment order took place, Pak explores how the schools and their students attempted to cope with evident contradiction and dissonance in democracy and citizenship. Emerging from the school district's tradition of emphasizing equality of all races and the government's forced evacuation orders based on racial exclusion, this dissonance became real and lived experience for Nisei school children, whose cognitive dissonance is best revealed in poignant phrases like "I am and will always be an American citizen."
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Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgements
Definition of Terms
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Making Sense of Dissonance: Students' Response to Executive Order 9066
Chapter 2: Setting the Stage: Seattle's Japanese America Before World War II
Chapter 3: Looking Backward: Americanization for Loyalty and Patriotism, 1916-1930
Chapter 4: Americanization Broadened: Education for Tolerance and Interculturalism
Chapter 5: Tenuous Citizenship: Schools, Students and Community Respond to War
Chapter 6: Dissonance Embodied: personal Accounts on the Eve of Incarceration
Conclusion
Note on Method and Sources
Appendix: Chronology of Events Affecting Japanese Americans Nationally from December 7, 1941 to June 7, 1942
Bibliography
Index
