Not white enough : the long, shameful road to Japanese American internment
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Not white enough : the long, shameful road to Japanese American internment
University Press of Kansas, c2023
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-253) and index
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Description
Lawrence Goldstone's Not White Enough is a comprehensive examination of a century of bigotry against Chinese and Japanese Americans that culminated in the infamous Supreme Court decision Korematsu v. United States: the landmark ruling that upheld the illegal imprisonment of more than 100,000 innocent men, women, and children who were falsely accused of endangering national security during World War II. This book is the first to trace the full arc of prejudice against Asian Americans that made internment inevitable and serves as a legal and political history of anti-Asian racism, beginning with the California gold rush and ending with the infamous Korematsu decision.Not White Enough demonstrates how the lines between law and politics blurred for decades to enable a two-tiered system of justice where constitutional guarantees of equality under law were no longer upheld for all people. Goldstone examines each of the key Supreme Court decisions-including Wong Kim Ark, Ozawa, and Thind-as not simply jurisprudence but as expressions of political will. He chronicles the political history of racism that made Japanese internment almost inevitable, highlighting the key roles San Francisco mayors James D. Phelan and Eugene Schmitz, political boss Abe Ruef, California attorney general Ulysses Webb, and future Chief Justice Earl Warren played in instigating some of the most egregious anti-Asian legislation, all for political convenience and gain. Goldstone also illustrates Chinese and Japanese immigrants' courage and determination to carve out a place for themselves in a country that did everything it could to reject them.
Table of Contents
Prologue: Bigotry Triumphant
1. Free and White
2. White, Black . . . and Gold
3. Enter the Japanese
4. Birthright
5. Yellow Peril
6. Workers of the West Unite
7. Tremors
8. Gentlemen . . . and Ladies
9. This Land Is (Not) Your Land
10. A Home One's Own (Children)
11. The Golden West
12. The Heart of an American
13. What Meets the Eye
14. Turning the Soil
15. Slamming the Door
16. Banzai and Baseball
17 Loyalty
18. Fear and Fiction
19. An Illusion of Disloyalty
20. No Island Paradise
21. Infamy
22. Four Who Refused
23. A Caricature of Justice
24. The Courage to Do What's Right
25. Shame
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