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How did female Protestant missionaries respond to the Japanese American incarceration experience during World War II? /

This project analyzes the work of female Protestant missionaries among Japanese Americans during World War II, primarily in the Japanese American incarceration camps, but also pre-evacuation, and post-war. While furloughed from Japan, some missionaries attempted to ameliorate the injustice of detent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hessel, Beth (Author, Compiler)
Corporate Author: Alexander Street (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014.
Series:Women and social movements: scholar's edition
Subjects:
Women missionaries.
Internment camps > United States.
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Femmes missionnaires.
Camps d'internement > États-Unis.
Américains d'origine japonaise > Relogement et internement forcés, 1942-1945.
missionaries.
Internment camps.
United States.
Electronic books.
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Summary:This project analyzes the work of female Protestant missionaries among Japanese Americans during World War II, primarily in the Japanese American incarceration camps, but also pre-evacuation, and post-war. While furloughed from Japan, some missionaries attempted to ameliorate the injustice of detention through a ministry of friendship and advocacy. These documents exhibit the tentative and improvisatory nature of female mission work during the war and suggest how these missionaries understood the incarceration experience and their role in it.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed April 7, 2015).
Physical Description:1 online resource.