scholarly journals Experiences in Archaeology, Social Justice, and Democratic Principles

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
William R. Belcher ◽  
Suzanne Falgout ◽  
Joyce Chinen ◽  
R. Kalani Carriera ◽  
Johanna Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Field Trips ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
World War ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
University Of Hawai'i ◽  
Democratic Principles

ABSTRACT From 2016 to 2019, the University of Hawai‘i West O‘ahu conducted archaeological field schools at Honouliuli National Historic Site to teach our students basic archaeological skills. Because the site was the largest Japanese and Japanese American concentration camp on O‘ahu, the field school initiated a program related to social justice and democratic principles for the imprisonment of US citizens and legal residents based on racial and national profiling. The demography of O‘ahu created a special bond to the incarcerees’ stories and the students of Asian and Hawaiian descent. Through field trips, student discussion, and curriculum development, we focused on the pedagogical benefit of experiential learning. Field trips to the National Park Service's World War II Valor in the Pacific Park System on O‘ahu, King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center, and the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i allowed the students to see and understand the historical context of the Japanese internment from the mid-nineteenth century, with the development of plantations and early colonialism, to the beginning of World War II and the internment of the more than 300 Japanese and Japanese American—as well as European and Okinawan—civilians and the imprisonment of over 4,000 prisoners of war.

Pure Grit: Telling the Story of World War II Military Nurses to a New Generation

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-201
Author(s):  
Wendy Bonifazi
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
World War ◽  
Training Experience ◽  
Military Nurses ◽  
American Military ◽  
Combat Training ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Prison Camp

Only a few of the 102 American military nurses serving in the Pacific in the 1940s had any combat training, experience or expectations, until the surprise attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines put them on the front lines. They learned wartime nursing under fire, treating thousands of casualties at ill-equipped battlefield hospitals. When the Allies surrendered, the 79 remaining nurses were the first U.S. Army women to become prisoners of war, but they refused to relinquish their professional roles and continued to provide nursing care to fellow prisoners throughout their years of captivity. In the book Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived in Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific, Mary Cronk Farrell uses quotes from journals, letters, and oral histories to give voice to the horrific experiences and esprit de corps of these remarkable nurses.

Traditions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Heine
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Song Dynasty ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
World War ◽  
Successful Transmission ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Conducting Research

Chapter 1 provides an overview of major trends and movements leading up to and contributing to the successful transmission of the Chinese Chan tradition to Japan while considering methodological problems that arise in conducting research on East Asian religion and culture in the post–World War II era. Set against the historical context of Song-dynasty China and Kamakura-era Japan, the chapter shows how and when Zen took hold in Japan with the rise of the shogun government by highlighting the differences between Chinese and Japanese societies during the period of transplantation. The chapter also explains current methods and scholarly developments involving the study of Zen by various leading researchers on both sides of the Pacific.

Between Two Eras: Anna Rosenberg and the Maintaining of the Alternative View of Public Administration, 1941-1945

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Thomas McGuire
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Initial Period ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
World War

Since the early 1990s, scholars have expanded their examination of historical context in the development of public administration in the United States, particularly in the area of gender. No one, however, has examined how the alternative, or social-justice-centered, view of public administration survived between its initial period of development and its revival after World War II. This article fills that gap by demonstrating how Anna Lederer Rosenberg, one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s key advisors from 1941 through 1945, maintained the alternative view through her political facilitation and national visibility.

Nature Behind Barbed Wire

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Connie Y. Chiang
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
World War ◽  
Us History ◽  
War Relocation Authority ◽  
The Social ◽  
Japanese Ancestry

The mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in US history. Removed from their homes on the temperate Pacific Coast, Japanese Americans spent the war years in ten desolate camps in the nation’s interior. Although scholars and commentators acknowledge the harsh environmental conditions of these camps, they have turned their attention to the social, political, or legal dimensions of this story. Nature Behind Barbed Wire shifts the focus to the natural world and explores how it shaped the experiences of Japanese Americans and federal officials who worked for the War Relocation Authority (WRA), the civilian agency that administered the camps. The complexities of the natural world both enhanced and constrained the WRA’s power and provided Japanese Americans with opportunities to redefine the terms and conditions of their confinement. Even as the environment compounded their feelings of despair and outrage, they also learned that their willingness (or lack thereof) to transform and adapt to the natural world could help them endure and even contest their incarceration. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that the Japanese American incarceration was fundamentally an environmental story. Japanese Americans and WRA officials negotiated the terms of confinement with each other and with a dynamic natural world.

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