Questions 27 & 28

Questions 27 & 28

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In February 1942, Shortly After The Bombing Of Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt Issued An Executive Order Authorizing The Secretary Of War To Remove 120,000 Japanese Americans From Their Homes On The West Coast And Corral Them Into Inland Concentration Camps. To Be Considered For Release, They Were Required To Answer The SoCalled Loyalty Questionnaire. Question 27 Asked The InmatesWho Had Been Imprisoned Without Cause By The Us MilitaryWhether They Were Willing To Serve In Combat For The Us Military. Question 28 Asked ThemMany Of Whom American Citizens Who Had Never Visited JapanTo Renounce Allegiance To The Japanese Emperor. Answering These Questions Caused Volatile Divisions Within The Camps, Tore Families And Friends Apart, And Had Lasting Repercussions In The Decades Postwar.Questions 27 & 28 Reaches Backward And Forward From The Time Of The Questionnaire, Chronicling The Individuals Who Arrived In The Us From Japan At The Turn Of The Century, Their Children Who Came Of Age During War And Incarceration, And Their Descendants Who Lived In Its Aftermath. Yamashita Mixes Fact With Fiction And Layers Genres From James Bond Movies To Haiku To Oral History, Transfiguring An Enormity Of Archival Research Into A Chorus Of Stories. With Her Signature Wit And Aplomb, She Gives Voice To Laborers, Artists, Scholars, Informants, And Activists Who, Over Three Generations, Defined An Immigrant Community.

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