ロジャー・ダニエルス
(Roger Daniels)
ロジャー・ダニエルズ氏は、シンシナティ大学チャールズ・フェルプス・タフト歴史学名誉教授で、現在はワシントン州ベルビュー在住。 『偏見の政治学：カリフォルニアの反日運動と日本人排斥の闘い』 （1962年）を皮切りに、日系アメリカ人の歴史と移民の歴史について幅広く執筆しており、その中には『裁判なしの囚人：第二次世界大戦中の日系アメリカ人』 （1993年、日本語版1997年、第2版2004年）や『黄金の扉を守る：1882年以降のアメリカの移民政策と移民』 （2004年）がある。ダニエルズ氏は『日系アメリカ人の事例：1942年から2010年までの社会史』という原稿を完成させたいと考えている。
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Words Do Matter: A Note on Inappropriate Terminology and the Incarceration of the Japanese Americans – Part 5 of 5
2008年2月6日 • ロジャー・ダニエルス
Part 4 >> When one examines the postwar printed record, whether memoirs by former inmates and officials or accounts by scholars and others, the result is pretty much the same. The terminology used by the government—evacuation and relocation—prevails, plus, for almost all the Nikkei authors and some scholars, the ambiguous “camp.” Nothing better exemplifies the difference between expressed Nikkei attitudes just after the war and three to four decades later than successive editions of two outstanding Nisei memoirs. The first, …
Words Do Matter: A Note on Inappropriate Terminology and the Incarceration of the Japanese Americans - Part 4 of 5
2008年2月5日 • ロジャー・ダニエルス
Part 3 >> Even as the mass round-up of West Coast Nikkei began, with an isolated group on Bainbridge Island, a short ferry ride from Seattle, the government’s wordsmiths were inventing new language. A “Civilian Exclusion Order” dated March 24, 1942, signed by Gen. John L. DeWitt and ominously numbered “No. 1,” directed all “Japanese persons, both alien and nonalien” to report to the ferryboat landing on March 30 for “temporary residence in a reception center elsewhere,” bringing with them …
Words Do Matter: A Note on Inappropriate Terminology and the Incarceration of the Japanese Americans - Part 3 of 5
2008年2月3日 • ロジャー・ダニエルス
Part 2 >> In discussing language, perhaps the best place to start is with the three- and four-letter epithets that were all but universally used to describe persons of Japanese birth or descent. While it was common until very recently for most Americans to use ugly words to describe persons of color and others deemed to be “lesser breeds without the law”—nigger, kike, wop, spic, chink, greaser, etc.—none was more universally used than Jap or Japs. One cannot imagine, for …
Words Do Matter: A Note on Inappropriate Terminology and the Incarceration of the Japanese Americans - Part 2 of 5
2008年2月2日 • ロジャー・ダニエルス
Part 1 >> The Roosevelt administration never intended to intern any sizable percentage of those million alien enemies. Attorney General Francis Biddle, a civil libertarian of sorts, and his staff in the Department of Justice wanted a minimal program and were aware of the gross injustices suffered by German and Italian resident aliens in Winston Churchill’s Great Britain.11 In preparation for war, various federal security agencies, military and civilian, had prepared Custodial Detention Lists, better known as the “ABC Lists,” …
Words Do Matter: A Note on Inappropriate Terminology and the Incarceration of the Japanese Americans - Part 1 of 5
2008年2月1日 • ロジャー・ダニエルス
On or about August 2, 1979, I received a telephone call from Senator Daniel K. Inouye’s Washington office.1 One of his administrative assistants read me a draft of what became Senate Bill 1647 calling for the establishment of a “Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC).” The call came because I had been advising the staff of the Japanese American Citizens League and others about the campaign for redress. After hearing the draft I commented that it sounded …
