| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Brian Masaru Hayashi. Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 319. $35.00.

Brian Masaru Hayashi sets himself an ambitious goal: to redefine the history of the wartime removal and confinement of Japanese Americans (popularly known as the Japanese American internment). Whereas other historians, he states, have studied these actions as a domestic event, Hayashi wishes to view them internationally, placing America's policy alongside repression of enemy aliens by other nations. Similarly, instead of focusing on Japanese Americans as victims of wartime hysteria and bias by military and government officials, Hayashi seeks to reconstruct the complex negotiation that occurred in the camps among military officials, camp administrators, and confined Japanese Americans (or what he calls "ordinary" internees) within the context of the developing military situation and of the government's interest in obtaining hostages to trade with Japan. He rightly rejects the notion that official policy was driven simply by an unchanging and fundamental racial bias against Japanese. Instead, he focuses on how different government factions, defining loyalty according to "race" or "culture," sought to inculcate or impose a pro-American position among the camp inmates.

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