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DESCRIPTION:<em></em>The confinement of some 120\,000 Japanese Americans du
 ring World War II\, often called the Japanese American internment\, has be
 en described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U. S. 
 history. Greg Robinson not only offers a bold new understanding of these e
 vents but also studies them within a larger time frame and from a transnat
 ional perspective.\n\nDrawing on newly discovered material\, Robinson prov
 ides a backstory of confinement that reveals for the first time the extent
  of the American government's surveillance of Japanese communities in the 
 years leading up to war and the construction of what officials termed "con
 centration camps" for enemy aliens. He also considers the aftermath of con
 finement\, including the place of Japanese Americans in postwar civil righ
 ts struggles\, the long movement by former camp inmates for redress\, and 
 the continuing role of the camps as touchstones for nationwide commemorati
 on and debate.\n\nMost remarkably\, <em>A Tragedy of Democracy </em> is th
 e first book to analyze official policy toward West Coast Japanese America
 ns within a North American context. Robinson studies confinement on the ma
 inland alongside events in wartime Hawaii\, where fears of Japanese Americ
 ans justified Army dictatorship\, suspension of the Constitution\, and the
  imposition of military tribunals. He similarly reads the treatment of Jap
 anese Americans against Canada's confinement of 22\,000 citizens and resid
 ents of Japanese ancestry from British Columbia. A Tragedy of Democracy re
 counts the expulsion of almost 5\,000 Japanese from Mexico's Pacific Coast
  and the poignant story of the Japanese Latin Americans who were kidnapped
  from their homes and interned in the United States. Approaching Japanese 
 confinement as a continental and international phenomenon\, Robinson offer
 s a truly kaleidoscopic understanding of its genesis and outcomes.
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SUMMARY:A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America  by G
 reg Robinson
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