Serving Our Country: Japanese American Women in the Military during World War II

✍ Scribed by Brenda Lee Moore

Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 238
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and America's declaration of war on Japan, the U.S. War Department allowed up to five hundred second-generation, or "Nisei," Japanese American women to enlist in the Women's Army Corps and, in smaller numbers, in the Army Medical Corps.

Through in-depth interviews with surviving Nisei women who served, Brenda L. Moore provides fascinating firsthand accounts of their experiences. Interested primarily in shedding light on the experiences of Nisei women during the war, the author argues for the relevance of these experiences to larger questions of American race relations and views on gender and their intersections, particularly in the country's highly charged wartime atmosphere. Uncovering a page in American history that has been obscured, Moore adds nuance to our understanding of the situation of Japanese Americans during the war.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Serving Our Country: Japanese American W

📁 Serving Our Country: Japanese American Women in the Military During World War II

✍ Brenda Lee Moore 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 Rutgers University Press 🌐 English

Following the 1945 attack on Pearl Harbor and America's declaration of war on Japan, the U.S. War Department allowed for up to five hundred second-generation, or "Nisei," Japanese American women to enlist in the Women's Army Corps and, in smaller numbers, in the army medical corps. The true number w

📁 Comfort women : sexual slavery in the Japanese military during World War II

✍ O'Brien, Suzanne G., 1969- 📂 Library 📅 2000 🏛 New York : Columbia University Press 🌐 English

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-242) and index

Nisei linguists : Japanese Americans in

📁 Nisei linguists : Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service during World War II

✍ James C McNaughton 📂 Library 🏛 🌐 English

Our Mothers’ War: American Women at Home

📁 Our Mothers’ War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II

✍ Emily Yellin 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 Free Press 🌐 English

Our Mothers' War is an eye-opening and moving portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of women's experiences during this pivotal era been brought together in one book. Now, Our Mothers' War r

Sisters in Arms: A Novel of the Daring B

📁 Sisters in Arms: A Novel of the Daring Black Women Who Served During World War II

✍ Kaia Alderson 📂 Fiction 📅 2021 🏛 HarperCollins 🌐 English

"Sisters in Arms is heartwarming but fierce, a novel brimming with camaraderie and fire, starring women you'd love to make your friends. Prickly, musical Grace and bubbly, privileged Eliza may not make the most natural allies, but it's fight or die when they're thrown together in the Army

Uprooted: The Japanese American Experien

📁 Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II

✍ Albert Marrin 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 Knopf Books for Young Readers 🌐 English

On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor comes a harrowing and enlightening look at the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II— from National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that most