Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II
Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II
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自由地为国而死：二战中日裔美国人抗征兵的故事
DOI：
10.5860/choice.39-5381
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发表时间：
2001
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E. Muller
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E. Muller
1942年春，联邦政府以怀疑西海岸的日裔美国人不忠为由，强迫他们进入拘留营。两年后，在剥夺了他们的生计、自由和尊严之后，政府将他们征召进了一直以颠覆分子身份保护他们的军队。大多数美国公民不情愿地服从了征兵，但有几百人拒绝了，他们实践了一种不同的美国爱国主义——抗议爱国主义。这部作品讲述了那些拒绝政府要求的人的故事。基于多年的研究和对抵抗者、他们的家人、支持者和反对者的个人采访，这本书试图重现1944年征兵通知到来后的情绪和事件的混乱：日裔美国人在国家忠诚和个人愤慨之间难以维持的处境；政府虚伪地要求人们在被剥夺公民权利的情况下为国家而死；对抗议者的粗制滥造的审判导致了定罪和监禁；以及日裔美国人社区对待抵抗者的方式，日裔美国人将他们视为阻碍同化进程的贱民。
In the spring of 1942, the federal government forced West Coast Japanese Americans into detainment camps on suspicion of disloyalty. Two years later, after stripping them of their livelihoods, liberty, and dignity, the government drafted them into the same military that had been guarding them as subversives. Most of the American citizens grudgingly complied with being drafted, but several hundred refused and practiced a different sort of American patriotism - the patriotism of protest. This work tells the story of the men who rejected the government's demands. Based on years of research and personal interviews with the resisters, their families, and their supporters and detractors, this book attempts to re-create the welter of emotions and events that followed the arrival of the draft notices in 1944: the untenable situation of the Japanese American men caught between national loyalty and personal indignation; the hypocrisy of the government in asking men to die for their country when it had denied them their rights as citizens; the shoddy trials of the protestors that produced convictions and imprisonments; and the treatment of the resisters by the Japanese American community, who looked upon them as pariahs who were hindering progress towards assimilation.