JAPANESE AMERICANS CREATED A NEW POLITICAL USE FOR JAZZ IN WORLD WAR II INTERNMENT TO EXPRESS RESISTANCE TO INCARCERATION AND EMPHASIZE AN AMERICAN IDENTITY. 75 PERCENT OF THE MEMBERS OF THE NORAKURO BAND IN THE MINIDOKA RELOCATION CENTER WERE “NO NO BOYS” WHO EXPRESSED RESISTANCE TO THE LOYALTY QUESTIONNAIRE. NINE OUT OF TEN INTERNMENT CAMPS HAD JAZZ BANDS; POSTON ARIZONA’S CAMPS HAD THREE. (ABOVE) NORAKURO IS A POPULAR JAPANESE COMIC BOOK CHARACTER. A HOMELESS PUPPY WHO JOINS THE ARMY, HE REPRESENTS THE DOMINANT JAPANESE MILITARISM OF THE 1930S. RESISTANCE and Americanization: Jazz in japanese-americaN internment JULIA WITHERS/HISTORY FALL 2015/PROFESSOR REIKO HILLYER resistance and americanization: Jazz in japanese-american internment
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JAPANESE AMERICANS CREATED
A NEW POLITICAL USE FOR JAZZ
IN WORLD WAR II INTERNMENT
TO EXPRESS RESISTANCE TO
INCARCERATION AND EMPHASIZE
AN AMERICAN IDENTITY.
75 PERCENT OF
THE MEMBERS OF
THE NORAKURO
BAND IN THE
MINIDOKA
RELOCATION
CENTER WERE “NO
NO BOYS” WHO
EXPRESSED
RESISTANCE TO
THE LOYALTY
QUESTIONNAIRE. NINE OUT OF TEN INTERNMENT CAMPS HAD JAZZ
BANDS; POSTON ARIZONA’S CAMPS HAD THREE.
(ABOVE) NORAKURO IS A POPULAR JAPANESE
COMIC BOOK CHARACTER. A HOMELESS PUPPY
WHO JOINS THE ARMY, HE REPRESENTS THE
DOMINANT JAPANESE MILITARISM OF THE 1930S.
RESISTANCE and Americanization: Jazz in
japanese-americaN internment
JULIA WITHERS/HISTORY FALL 2015/PROFESSOR REIKO HILLYER
resistance and americanization:
Jazz in japanese-american internment
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