Jim and ➕ Jap Crow. A Cultural History of 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣0️⃣s Interracial America ​🇺🇸​

✅ Following Japans ​🇯🇵​ attack on Pearl Harbor in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣1️⃣, the U.S. government rounded up ⬆️ more than one 1️⃣ hundred 💯 thousand Japanese ​🇯🇵​ Americans ​🇺🇸​👥 and ➕ sent 📦️➡️ them ➡️👥 to internment camps 🏕️. One 1️⃣ of those internees was Charles Kikuchi. In thousands of diary pages 📃, he 👤👨 documented 📃 his 👤👨⬅️ experiences in the camps 🏕️, his 👤👨⬅️ resettlement in Chicago and ➕ drafting into the Army on the eve of Hiroshima and ➕ Nagasaki, and ➕ his 👤👨⬅️ postwar life 🧬 as a social worker 👨‍🏭️ in New 🆕 York City 🏙️. Kikuchis diaries bear 🐻 witness 👁️‍🗨️ to a watershed era in American ​🇺🇸​ race 🏃‍♂️ relations, and ➕ expose both the promise and ➕ the hypocrisy of American ​🇺🇸​ democracy. Jim and ➕ Jap Crow follows Kikuchis personal 💻️ odyssey among fellow Japanese ​🇯🇵​ American ​🇺🇸​ intellectuals, immigrant activists, Chicago School 🏫 social scientists 👨‍🔬, everyday people 👥 on Chicagos South ⬇️ Side, and ➕ psychologically scarred veterans in the hospitals 🏥 of New 🆕 York. The book 📚️ chronicles a remarkable moment in Americas 🌎️ history in which interracial alliances challenged the limits of the elusive democratic ideal, and ➕ in which the nation was forced to choose between civil liberty 🗽 and ➕ the fearful 😨 politics of racial hysteria. It was an era of world 🗺️ war and ➕ the atomic ⚛️ bomb 💣️, desegregation in the military 🎖️ but Jim and ➕ Jap Crow elsewhere in America ​🇺🇸​, and ➕ a hopeful 🔮 progressivism that gave ⬅️🎁 way to Cold ❄️🌡️ War paranoia. Jim and ➕ Jap Crow looks at Kikuchis life 🧬 and ➕ diaries as a lens through which to observe the possibilities, failures, and ➕ key 🔑 conversations in a dynamic multiracial America ​🇺🇸​.

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