Jim and Jap Crow : a cultural history of 1940s interracial America / Matthew M. Briones.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, Description: x, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780691129488
  • 0691129487
  • 9780691161938
  • 0691161933
Other title:
  • Jim & Jap Crow
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.8/956073092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • D769.8.A6 K5433 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: an age of possibility -- Before Pearl Harbor: taking the measure of a "marginal" man -- "A multitude of complexes": finding common ground with Louis Adamic -- "Unity within diversity": intimacies and public discourses of race and ethnicity -- "Participating and observing": Dorothy Swaine Thomas, W.I. Thomas, and JERS -- The Tanforan and Gila diaries: becoming Nikkei -- From "Jap Crow" to "Jim and Jane Crow": Black and Blue (and Yellow) in Chicago and the Bay area -- "It could just as well be me": Japanese American and African American GIs in the Army diary -- Conclusion: Tatsuro, "Standing Man."
Summary: This work explores the idea of a multiracial America through the diaries of Charles Kikuchi. These diaries chronicle Kikuchi's experiences in internment camps during WWII, resettlement in Chicago, drafting into the army soon before Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his life as a social worker in New York City after the war.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: an age of possibility -- Before Pearl Harbor: taking the measure of a "marginal" man -- "A multitude of complexes": finding common ground with Louis Adamic -- "Unity within diversity": intimacies and public discourses of race and ethnicity -- "Participating and observing": Dorothy Swaine Thomas, W.I. Thomas, and JERS -- The Tanforan and Gila diaries: becoming Nikkei -- From "Jap Crow" to "Jim and Jane Crow": Black and Blue (and Yellow) in Chicago and the Bay area -- "It could just as well be me": Japanese American and African American GIs in the Army diary -- Conclusion: Tatsuro, "Standing Man."

This work explores the idea of a multiracial America through the diaries of Charles Kikuchi. These diaries chronicle Kikuchi's experiences in internment camps during WWII, resettlement in Chicago, drafting into the army soon before Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his life as a social worker in New York City after the war.

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