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Connell uncovers a little known World War II top secret program. The United States demanded that Latin American governments deport-or allow the United States to take-anyone of Japanese ancestry and place them in camps in Texas and New Mexico. The plan was to trade them for American civilians held by the Japanese.
Although Peru was the most enthusiastic participant in this program, expelling nearly 5,000 Peruvian citizens of Japanese ancestry, other Latin American countries participated as well. Connell traces the reasons for prejudice and discrimination, the specific programs, and the post-war efforts of those held in American relocation camps to secure restitution. Through the wide use of oral interviews as well as documents, Connell shows the very human side of this effort, which in many ways parallels the discrimination Americans of Japanese ancestry faced during the war. This book provides a thorough and intriguing story of interest to general readers as well as scholars, students, and other researchers involved with World War II and Latin American history.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction
Setting the Stage
Peruvian Hostility Toward the Japanese
The Program Begins to Take Shape
Diplomatic Machinations
Attack on Peruvian Japanese Businesses
The Rio Conference and Emergency Advisory Committee
The First Shipment
More Shipments, More Camps
Deportees and Diplomats
War Unites the Americas!
Crystal City Internment Camp
Uniform Proof of Subversive Acts
Women and Children Last
The Beginning of the End
Changing Conditions
Hemispheric Threat: Shindo Remmei
Another New Beginning
Final Legal Struggle for Release
Bibliography
Index
About the author
THOMAS CONNELL is Vice President of Interlink Consulting Services, Inc.
