TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coffman,Tom
TI  - Inclusion: how Hawaiʻi protected Japanese Americans from mass internment, transformed itself, and changed America 
SN  - 9780824888541
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Honolulu
PB  - University of Hawaiʻi Press
KW  - Japanese Americans
KW  - Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Hawaii
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Participation, Japanese American
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; On the Ground -- Next to the Ocean -- External and Internal Security -- A Swing toward Americanization -- A Climate of Fear -- Resetting the Clock -- The Cry of Sabotage -- The Threat of Demoralization -- The Morale Section at Work -- War Service or Mass Evacuation? -- The Mobilization -- Missionaries to America -- The Home Front Doldrums -- Imagining a New Hawaiʻi -- Sealed with Sacrifice -- All the People, All the Time
N2  - "Following December 7, 1941, when the United States government interned 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry evicted from scattered settlements throughout the West Coast states, why was a much larger number concentrated in the Hawaiian Islands war zone not similarly incarcerated? At the root of the story is an inclusive community that worked from the ground up to protect an embattled segment of its population. Where the onset of World War II surprised the American public, war with Japan arrived in Hawaiʻi in slow motion. Responding to numerous signs of impending conflict, a Council for Interracial Unity mapped two goals: Minimize internment and maximize inclusion in the war effort. The Council's aspirational work was expressed in a widely repeated saying: "How we get along during the war will determine how we get along when the war is over." The Army Command of Hawaiʻi, reassured by first-hand acquaintances, came to believe "Trust breeds trust." Where most histories have shielded President Franklin D. Roosevelt from direct responsibility for the U.S. mainland internment, his relentless demands for a mass removal from Hawaiʻi-ultimately thwarted-reveal him as author and actor. In making sense of the disparity between Island and mainland, Inclusion unravels the deep history of the U.S. "sabotage psychosis," dissecting why many continental Americans still believe Japan succeeded at Pearl Harbor because of the unseen hand of Japanese saboteurs. Contrary to the explanation of hysteria as the cause of the internment, Inclusion documents how a high-level plan of mass removal actually was pitched to Hawaiʻi prior to December 7, only to be rejected"--
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