Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory

ISBN-13: 9780195338850 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 304 str.

Brian Masaru Hayashi

Recenzje

A rare study of how wartime necessity to fight an Asian enemy prompted the Office of Strategic Services to recruit skilled Asian Americans. It demonstrates that such wartime expediency enhanced racial diversity in the federal service, but also posed serious challenges to loyalty, citizenship, internal security, and ultimately what it means to be 'American.'

O autorze

Brian Masaru Hayashi is a Professor of History at Kent State University. He is the author of For the Sake of Our Japanese Brethren: Assimilation, Nationalism, and Protestantism Among the Japanese of Los Angeles, 1895-1942 and Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment.