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Journal articles on the topic "Racism in WWII"
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Hyun, Jaehwan. "Blood purity and scientific independence: blood science and postcolonial struggles in Korea, 1926–1975." Science in Context 32, no. 3 (2019): 239–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889719000231.
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ArgumentAfter World War II, blood groups became a symbol of anti-racial science. This paper aims to shed new light on the post-WWII history of blood groups and race, illuminating the postcolonial revitalization of racial serology in South Korea. In the prewar period, Japanese serologists developed a serological anthropology of Koreans in tandem with Japanese colonialism. The pioneering Korean hematologist Yi Samyŏl (1926–2015), inspired by decolonization movements during the 1960s, excavated and appropriated colonial serological anthropology to prove Koreans as biologically independent from the Japanese. However, his racial serology of Koreans shared colonial racism with Japanese anthropology, despite his anti-colonial nationalism.
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Kekki, Saara. "Entangled Histories of Assimilation: Dillon S. Myer and the Relocation of Japanese Americans and Native Americans (1942–1953)." American Studies in Scandinavia 51, no. 2 (2019): 25–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v51i2.5973.
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Dillon S. Myer (1891–1982) has been framed as the lone villain in incarcerating and dispersing the Japanese Americans during WWII (as director of the War Relocation Authority) and terminating and relocating Native American tribes in the 1950s (as Commissioner of Indian Affairs). This view is almost solely based on the 1987 biography Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism by Richard Drinnon. Little more has been written about Myer and his views, and a comprehensive comparison of the programs is yet to be published. This article compares the aims of the assimilation and relocation policies, especially through Myer’s public speeches. They paint a picture of a bureaucrat who was committed to his job, who held strongly onto the ideals of Americanization and assimilation, and who saw “mainstream” white American culture as something for all to strive after, but who was hardly an utter racist.
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Fujitani, Takashi. "Right to Kill, Right to Make Live: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans During WWII." Representations 99, no. 1 (2007): 13–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2007.99.1.13.
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This article argues that the demands of waging total war effected parallel and mutually constitutive changes in the political rationalities of the Japanese colonial empire and the United States, and modulated racism away from its "vulgar" to its more "polite" form. The shift in political rationality centered on a movement away from (albeit not the displacement of) the deductive logic of the "right to kill" toward the productive logic of the "right to make live."
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Berg, Mette Louise, and Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh. "Editorial." Migration and Society 6, no. 1 (2023): v—ix. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/arms.2023.060101.
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We write this editorial in mid-February 2023 as the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine fast approaches. The war has so far led to over eight million people fleeing Ukraine to seek refuge across neighboring countries,1 an unprecedented situation in Europe since the end of WWII. While the hospitality and solidarity extended to Ukrainian refugees was widely commended from the onset, commentators, including the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, Tendayi Achiume, have widely denounced and critiqued the racist and orientalist double standards and “racial tiering” inherent in popular and political responses to displacement from Ukraine (OHCHR 2022; Bayoumi 2022; Jackson Sow 2022; Ray 2022). Ukrainian refugees were welcomed with open borders and “open arms” while racialized third nationals fleeing from the same conflict, including 76,000 students from diverse African countries studying in Ukraine, were forcibly prevented from crossing the same borders, as an extension of institutionalized discriminatory policies which continue to frame migrants and refugees from Africa and the Middle East through the lens of hostility and suspicion (Zaru 2022; Banerjee 2023). Indeed, while Ukrainians have been welcomed across Europe, often explicitly because they have been racialized as white and Christian, people fleeing other conflicts, including wars in which European governments have played an active part, notably Afghanistan, have been met with soldiers and push-backs, in violation of international and regional rights frameworks, including the European Convention on Human Rights, in some cases at the very same borders, notably those of Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania (see Sanderson 2022).
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Fuhr, Michael, and Cornelia Gruber. "Die Fachgruppe „Musikethnologie und vergleichende Musikwissenschaft“ in der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung." Die Musikforschung 76, no. 3 (2023): 281–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.52412/mf.2023.h3.3098.
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This article gives a brief insight into the work of the study group “Ethnomusicology and Comparative Musicology” of the “Gesellschaft für Musikforschung” (GfM). It spotlights central issues, historical moments and developments in the past, and more recent activities of the study group. The first part roughly outlines cornerstones from its founding stages in the post-WWII years, when traditional views of “Völkerkunde” prevailed, to the paradigm shifts of the 1980s and 1990s, as comparative musicology gradually shifted towards ethnomusicological approaches grounded in cultural and social anthropology. The second part highlights the study group’s self-reflexive perspective and its recent engagement with topics such as diversity, anti-racism, and (post-)coloniality in the academic field. Drawing on issues discussed in the context of the “crisis of ethnographic representation,” recent debates and activities in the group are driven by ethical and political discussions regarding the power imbalances that shape ethnomusicological methodologies, practices and discourses within and beyond academia, and are thus closely tied to larger questions of social justice, equity, and inclusion.
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Chanco, Christopher. "Refugees, Humanitarian Internationalism, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada 1945–1952." Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes 30 (April 26, 2021): 12–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1916-0925.40182.
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This article examines the humanitarian internationalism of the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada (JLC) between 1938 and 1952. Throughout WWII, the JLC sent aid to European resistance movements, and in its aftermath participated in the “garment workers’ schemes,” a series of immigration projects that resettled thousands of displaced persons in Canada. Undertaken independently by the Jewish-Canadian community, with the assistance of trade unions, the projects worked to overcome tight border restrictions and early Cold War realpolitik. In doing so, the JLC united Jewish institutions, trade unionists, social democrats, and anti-fascists across Europe and North America. It also acted in a pivotal moment in the evolution of Canada’s refugee system and domestic attitudes toward racism. As such, the JLC’s history is a microcosm for the shifting nature of relations between Jews, Canada, and the left writ large.
Cet article examine l’internationalisme humanitaire du Jewish Labour Committee du Canada (JLC) entre 1938 et 1952. Tout au long de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, le JLC a envoyé de l’aide aux mouvements de résistance européens et a participé, après l’armistice, aux « garment workers’ schemes », une série de projets d’immigration qui ont permis de réinstaller des milliers de personnes déplacées au Canada. Entrepris indépendamment par la communauté juive canadienne et avec l’aide de syndicats, ces projets ont permis de surmonter les restrictions frontalières et la realpolitik du début de la guerre froide. Ce faisant, le JLC a réuni des institutions juives, des syndicalistes, des sociaux-démocrates et des antifascistes de toute l’Europe et de l’Amérique du Nord. Il a également agi à un moment charnière de l’évolution du système canadien d’octroi de l’asile et des attitudes de la population à l’égard du racisme. En tant que telle, l’histoire du JLC est un microcosme de la nature changeante des relations entre les Juifs, le Canada et la gauche au sens large.
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Rhodes, Jason. "The Value of Exclusion: Chasing Scarcity through Social Exclusion in Early Twentieth Century Atlanta." Human Geography 9, no. 1 (2016): 46–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/194277861600900105.
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In recent decades, a powerful narrative has taken shape which explores the impact of federal housing policies in shaping the highly racialized geography of poverty and privilege which forms the landscape of today's American city. Called the “New Suburban History,” it documents the racial discrimination written into the subsidized home loan policies of the federal government after WWII, based upon the assumption that property values depended upon the maintenance of neighborhood homogeneity on the basis of race and class. The discussion launched by the New Suburban History has focused almost exclusively on the effects of such policies: by lavishing neighborhoods comprised exclusively of white homeowners with federal subsidies, while targeting the neighborhoods of non-whites and renters for red-lining, these programs, it is argued, became self-fulfilling prophecies of neighborhood growth and decline. Neglected in this discussion, however, is a rigorous examination of the roots of the assumption that the value of the single-family residential home depended upon practices of social exclusion designed to “protect” it from physical proximity to non-whites and renters. The guiding assumption, occasionally made explicit, is that racism precluded a more rational approach to the assessment of property values. This paper argues that there was nothing irrational about the regulations developed to protect urban property values in the first decades of the twentieth century. These regulations explicitly sought to boost and maintain real estate values by means of artificial limitations placed on the supply of urban land, an approach which ensured that segments of the population would benefit from the scarcity-induced rise in prices, while others faced exclusion in the process of effecting it. The development of these regulations, and the crisis narratives employed to justify them, is traced here from the municipal zoning framework developed at the National Conference on City Planning to its implementation in New York City in 1916 and Atlanta in 1922. The paper concludes with an analysis of the 1938 Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) “residential security map” of Atlanta, which assigned grades to the city's neighborhoods on the basis of their place in the 1922 zoning scheme, which essentially knew two categories, “exclusive” and “excluded.” Against the standard narrative, which holds that racism distorted conceptions of property values in the twentieth century American city, what is argued here is that the institution of value, and the social categories of privilege and exclusion which it requires, has fundamentally shaped our categories of race.
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Gonzalez, Jaime Acosta, and Eli Meyerhoff. "Stained University." Social Text 39, no. 1 (2021): 93–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8750124.
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Abstract Duke University was founded on tobacco wealth, and now it has a tobacco-free campus. How should we understand this change? How can communities around this university, and higher education broadly, reckon with our historical and ongoing complicities with tobacco capitalism? This article examines how the individualized subject has been historically constructed, in response to resistances, through supplementary relations between the university and tobacco industries. With abolitionist university studies, the authors focus on the postslavery university as a key site for these individualizing processes. They situate Duke as a nexus of new means of capitalist accumulation, including, on the one hand, the postslavery university as an institution for disciplining, individualizing, and differentiating wage laborers and, on the other, the tobacco industry's shift to monopolization and mass consumption of tobacco commodities. The long Black freedom movement continues in the post-WWII era with resistances that push capitalism into crisis, while simultaneously, capitalism's coping mechanism of tobacco use has the unintended consequence of mass death. This article explores how, at the site of Duke, part of capitalism's response to resistance movements has been to deepen the individualization processes, charging individuals with taking on responsibility for the costs of both tobacco use and higher education. The authors ask how narratives of smoke-free and tobacco-free campuses could interlink with postracial narratives to obscure how the tobacco companies and universities have accumulated capital through racism, deception, dispossession, and exploitation.
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Macapugay, Kirin, and Benjamin Nakamura. "The Student Empowerment through Narrative, Storytelling, Engagement, and Identity Framework for Student and Community Empowerment: A Culturally Affirming Pedagogy." Genealogy 8, no. 3 (2024): 94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8030094.
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For people from communities experiencing poverty and oppression, education, particularly higher education, is a means to ensure upward socioeconomic mobility. The access to and attainment of education are issues of social and economic justice, built upon foundational experiences in primary and secondary settings, and impacted by students’ cultural and socio-political environments. 6. The 2020 murder of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter movement, ongoing discourse around immigration, and COVID-19-related hate targeting people of Asian American descent prompted national calls to dismantle social and systemic racism, spurring diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives, particularly in education. However, these efforts have faced opposition from teachers who have told students that all lives matter, and racism does not exist in many American classrooms Loza. These comments negate students’ experiences, suppress cultural and identity affirmation, and negatively impact student wellness and academic performance. Forged in this polarized environment, two longtime community organizers and educators, an indigenous person living away from her ancestral lands and a multiracial descendant of Japanese Americans interned during WWII, whose identities, experiences, and personal narratives shape the course of their work in and outside of the physical classroom, call on fellow educators to exercise y (2018) component of the archeology of self, a “profound love, a deep, ethical commitment to caring for the communities where one works”, by adopting a framework to encourage this profound love in students, acting not just as a teacher, but as a sensei. The word sensei is commonly understood in reference to a teacher of Japanese martial arts. The honorific sensei, however, in kanji means one who comes before, implying intergenerational connection. Sensei is an umbrella expression used for elders who have attained a level of mastery within their respective crafts—doctors, teachers, politicians, and spiritual leaders may all earn the title of sensei. The sensei preserves funds of knowledge across generations, passing down and building upon knowledge from those who came before. The Student Empowerment through Narrative, Storytelling, Engagement, and Identity (SENSEI) framework provides an asset-based, culturally affirming approach to working with students in and beyond the classroom. The framework builds on tools and perspectives, including Asset-based Community Development (ABCD), the Narrative Theory, Yosso’s cultural community wealth, cultural continuity, thrivance, community organizing tenets, and storytelling SENSEI provides a pedagogy that encourages students to explore, define, and own their identities and experiences and grow funds of knowledge, empowering them to transform their own communities from within. The SENSEI framework begins by redefining a teacher as not simply one who teaches in a classroom but rather one who teaches valuable life lessons that transcend colonial conceptualizations of the teacher. In colonized contexts, teachers function to maintain hegemony and assert dominance over marginalized populations. In the SENSEI framework, teachers are those who disrupt colonial patterns and function to reclaim the strengths and voices of the communities they serve. In the SENSEI framework, students are not relegated to those enrolled in classrooms. As with a sensei, a student exists to counter hegemony by embracing and enacting their cultural wealth Educators must help counter harmful narratives and encourage students to identify the strengths that lie within themselves and their communities. Collective forms of narrative that value identity can ensure the continuity of a community or a people. The stories of students’ histories, traditional practices, and resilience can help disrupt harms, many that have lasted for generations, so they may not just survive, but thrive.
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Poff, Ryan. "Anti-Japanese Sentiment and Action in Texas during World War II." Home Front Studies 2, no. 1 (2022): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hfs.2022.a910756.
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Abstract: Relations between Texas's citizens of Japanese and European descent were largely peaceable before World War II (WWII), but the state's historical commitment to segregation and the racial ideology supporting it created a fertile ground for racialized propaganda appeals following Pearl Harbor. In the wake of the attack, the US federal government and the Texas state government cooperated in detaining Texas's Japanese-descended population and in destroying sites of cultural exchange between Japan and the United States. This study broadens the historical understanding of the WWII home front by examining the cultivation, function, and aftermath of the wartime anti-Japanese sentiment in Texas.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Racism in WWII"
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Chang, Amanda T. "What a Waste: Segregation and Sanitation in Brooklyn, New York in the post-WWII Era." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/69.
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Through studying the intersections of sanitation and segregation in Brooklyn, New York in the post-WWII era, this thesis reveals a web of willful white negligence that constructed a narrative that supports continued environmental injustices towards black Americans. As a result of housing discrimination, the lack of sanitation, and the political and social climate of the 1950s, black neighborhoods in Brooklyn became dirtier with abandoned garbage. Institutional anti-black racism not only permitted and supported the degradation of black neighborhoods, but also created an association between black Americans and trash. In the present day, this narrative not only leads to the increased segregation of black Americans into dirty neighborhoods, but also justifies more environmental injustice in these vulnerable communities. Based on a case study of Brooklyn in the 1950s, this thesis asserts that environmental injustices are more than just siting landfills and toxic sites proximate to vulnerable neighborhoods, but rather they are dependent on the creation and preservation of narratives that claim minority communities are naturally predisposed to or deserving of living in dirty and unclean places.
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Cannon, Ammie. "Controversial Politics, Conservative Genre: Rex Stout's Archie-Wolfe Duo and Detective Fiction's Conventional Form." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/469.
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Rex Stout maintained his popular readership despite the often controversial and radical political content expressed in his detective fiction. His political ideals often made him many enemies. Stances such as his ardent opposition to censorship, racism, Nazism, Germany, Fascism, Communism, McCarthyism, and the unfettered FBI were potentially offensive to colleagues and readers from various political backgrounds. Yet Stout attempted to present radical messages via the content of his detective fiction with subtlety. As a literary traditionalist, he resisted using his fiction as a platform for an often extreme political agenda. Where political messages are apparent in his work, Stout employs various techniques to mute potentially offensive messages. First, his hugely successful bantering Archie Goodwin-Nero Wolfe detective duo—a combination of both the lippy American and the tidy, sanitary British detective schools—fosters exploration, contradiction, and conflict between political viewpoints. Archie often rejects or criticizes Wolfe's extreme political viewpoints. Second, Stout utilizes the contradictions between values that occur when the form of detective fiction counters his radical political messages. This suggests that the form of detective fiction (in this case the conventional patterns and attitudes reinforced by the genre) is as important as the content (in this case the muted political message or the lack of overt politics) in reinforcing or shaping political, economic, moral, and social viewpoints. An analysis of the novels The Black Mountain (1954) and The Doorbell Rang (1965) and the novellas "Not Quite Dead Enough" and "Booby Trap" (1944) from Stout's Nero Wolfe series demonstrates his use of detective fiction for both the expression of political viewpoints and the muting of those political messages.
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"Media Representation of Immigrants in Canada Since WWII." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2013-12-1313.
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Canada’s public immigration discourse is usually racialized in using an ideological framework to evaluate, select and make judgements of immigrants on whether they are culturally, socially, or economically desirable to Canada. Some social and economic affairs may present a discursive context for debates over immigration and the value of immigrants to Canada. By using a critical discourse analysis of news articles on immigration in Canada’s national newspaper The Globe and Mail in four historical phases after the end of the Second World War, this study examines how the contents of “desirable immigrants” were changed throughout history. This study questions whether some social political affairs in a country or an extreme economic situation such as high unemployment can change the social boundaries of exclusion for immigrants of certain racial and ethnic backgrounds and allow more direct and exclusionary racial messages to be expressed in the discourse. The findings indicate that during economic recessions, it is more acceptable for the media and the public to express more directly racist messages about non-white immigrants, and some political factors and major social events may also influence how different ethnic groups of immigrants can be socially constructed. While a liberal democratic country like Canada may not accept overt racial discrimination, I argue that a social crisis or economic recession can change the social boundaries of exclusion for immigrants of certain racial and ethnic backgrounds and justify using more blatant racial messages in discussing immigrants.
Books on the topic "Racism in WWII"
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Shute, Nevil. The chequer board. Charnwood, 1987.
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Shute, Nevil. The chequer board. Mandarin, 1990.
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Shute, Nevil. The Chequer Board. Random House Publishing Group, 2010.
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Peyton, K. M. Flambards divided. Penguin, 1991.
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Shute, Nevil. The Chequer Board (Vintage Classics). Vintage Classics, 2009.
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Shute, Nevil. Chequer Board. Independently Published, 2020.
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Shute, Nevil. Chequer Board. Independently Published, 2022.
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Shute, Nevil. The Chequer Board. Soundings, 1997.
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Shute, Nevil. The Chequer Board. House of Stratus, 2000.
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Shute, Nevil. Chequer Board. Independently Published, 2020.
Book chapters on the topic "Racism in WWII"
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Dockray-Miller, Mary. "Anglo-Saxon and Academic Opportunities for Women, Civil War-WWI." In Public Medievalists, Racism, and Suffrage in the American Women’s College. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69706-2_2.
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Lisle, Debbie. "Tours of Duty, Tours of Pleasure." In Holidays in the Danger Zone. University of Minnesota Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816698554.003.0003.
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Tourist practices to the Somme in the immediate aftermath of the Great War are politically significant because they mobilized contradictory experiences of commemoration, grief, reverence, leisure, spectacle and adventure. By the end of WWII, a much more toxic combination racism, patriarchy and dehumanization was at work as Allied forces made their way across the Pacific.
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Song, Jingyi. "Legacy of the Exclusion Act and Chinese Americans’ Experience." In Sino-American Relations. Amsterdam University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463726368_ch02.
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The core of the new cold war is racism. The race issue cannot be isolated to US policies in relationship with other countries, nor to its domestic policies. The world was dragged into more than half a century of Cold War between the two major camps of the Soviet Union and the United States. Meanwhile, the rise of China in global affairs and its rapid economic and technological development alarmed the United States and its European allies. Taking the neo-Churchillian view of the post-war globe, and sticking to old playbooks, the old WWII reenactors envision China as an autocratic foil against which democracy wages a global struggle.
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Moore, Stephanie C. "Unconventional Histories." In Reshaping Women's History. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042003.003.0013.
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This chapter highlights how many women historians, like the author, delve into the histories that have been marginalized by the dominant canon, finding palpable relevance to present-day social justice issues. The chapter then turns to the little-known history of the internment of Japanese Latin Americans in the United States during World War II, a case of extraordinary rendition. Focusing on the internment of the Japanese Peruvians, this chapter argues that global “yellow peril” and eugenic ideologies played an essential role in U.S. and Peruvian policies during WWII. Further, it challenges readers to consider how purported policies of national security have been motivated by thinly veiled racism.
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Whitlinger, Claire. "Introduction." In Between Remembrance and Repair. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656335.003.0001.
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For decades, Philadelphia, Mississippi epitomized Southern racism as the site of the 1964 “Mississippi Burning” murders of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. Yet in a striking turn of events, the community’s efforts to confront its history of racial violence is now commended by academics and racial reconciliation practitioners as a model for other cities hoping to do the same. This introductory chapter situates this local transformation within a global political and cultural landscape, highlighting the “memory boom” ignited by WWII, which constructed acknowledgment and atonement with moral righteousness and legitimate democracy. Then, after reviewing scholarly debates on the social utility of commemorating violent pasts, the chapter argues that such commemorations are neither entirely beneficial nor detrimental to social life, as popular and scholarly texts often suggest. Rather, scholars should identify the conditions that enable commemorations of violent pasts to transform the often tragic conditions out of which they emerge. In this way, commemorations must be understood as both the cause and consequence of related memory movements. Studying commemorative outcomes therefore requires a detailed historical and counterfactual analysis, a methodological approach discussed in the chapter’s final section.
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Brokaw, David J. "Fighting a War, Combating a Myth." In Monsters on Maple Street. University Press of Kentucky, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813197845.003.0003.
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In this chapter, World War II myth and memory are analyzed in detail. Because Serling was a WWII veteran, he clearly took issue with popular portrayals of 'The Good War” e.g. John Wayne's films The Fighting Sea-Bees. The episodes “Quality of Mercy” and “Thirty-Fathom Grave” tackle issues related to racism within the military, especially toward the Japanese, as well as battle fatigue, or what is now known as PTSD. The psychological trauma of real warfare, juxtaposed with simplistic portrayals of combat, serve as a foundation for understanding Serling and his series. Connections to print culture include the works of Grinker and Spiegel, American psychologists who worked on the front lines with veterans, as well as the first DSM, published in 1953 as a result of wartime research. Eugene Sledges's memoir and John Dower's scholarship provide added layers of context and meaning.
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Krell, Jonathan F. "Ethical Humanism and the Animal Question: Vercors’s You Shall Know Them (Les Animaux dénaturés)." In Ecocritics and Ecoskeptics. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789622058.003.0005.
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Vercors’s You Shall Know Them, published shortly after WWII, grapples with the question of how to define humans and how to differentiate them from animals. This “animal question” is closely linked to the “law of the strongest” and a long history of racism, imperialism, and capitalism, as exposed in Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. Archeologists, looking for fossils, discover a tribe of intelligent ape-like hominids in New Guinea, and no one can determine if they are human or another species of great apes. A businessman wants to castrate most males, intern them in camps, and use them as cheap labor in his wool mills, an ominous reference to the Nazi concentration camps that had so recently shaken Vercors’s humanist convictions, laying bare the bestiality of humans. After a long trial, it is decided that the hominids should be considered human, because, worshipping fire, they manifest a spirit of religion. Like Camus’s “Human Crisis” lecture of 1946, You Shall Know Them is a call for the restoration of human dignity, annihilated by the savagery of the war.
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Lisle, Debbie. "Bipolar Travels." In Holidays in the Danger Zone. University of Minnesota Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816698554.003.0004.
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Efforts to preserve and transform Auschwitz and Hiroshima into tourist sites in the aftermath of WWII reveal the difficult and often jarring connection between commemoration and tourism spectacle. As these sites slowly developed throughout the Cold War, another war-tourism conjunction was emerging in which Western soldiers on R&R vacations from the battlefields of Korea and Vietnam intensified racist, patriarchal and often violent modes of dominance.
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Layne, Priscilla. "Adapting Black Masculinity in Melvin Van Peebles’s The Story of a Three Day Pass." In Intersecting Aesthetics. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496848840.003.0009.
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In the chapter, Priscilla Layne explains that Melvin Van Peebles applied for filmmaker’s rights after establishing himself as a novelist with the publication of La Permission (1967), the basis for his first feature, The Story of a Three Day Pass (1967). The central character, a soldier stationed in France following WWII, is one of thousands of African American men enjoying a breadth of freedom miles away from racist America. Analyzing the texts’ intersecting aesthetics, the chapter reflects on Van Peebles’s decision to explore only in the novella postwar American occupation and a Black male character’s state of mind. Also considering the adaptation in relation to a subsequent Van Peebles’s film, the chapter sees The Story of a Three Day Pass revealing the director’s interest in taking a more political and confrontational stance on racial politics, making this film a precursor to his more radical production, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971).
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Griffith, Sarah M. "Epilogue." In The Fight for Asian American Civil Rights. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041686.003.0008.
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Liberal Protestant resistance to anti-Asian discrimination evolved over the first half of the twentieth century to become a powerful force for social change. Through their various institutions and organizations, liberal Protestants worked to change the way Americans and policy makers thought about racial difference and inclusion. The interracial coalitions that liberal Protestants built during WWII continued to impact the fight for minority civil rights in the early Cold War era. The 1952 McCarran Walter Act embodied the racial liberalism of liberal Protestants when it lifted the decades-long ban on Asian immigration. Understanding the history of liberal Protestant activism comes at an important time as the nation continues to struggle over the meaning of inclusion and searches for ways to achieve racial equality.
Reports on the topic "Racism in WWII"
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Aizer, Anna, Ryan Boone, Adriana Lleras-Muney, and Jonathan Vogel. Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from WWII. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w27689.
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