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DOMESTIC CONTAINMENT:
JAPANESE AMERICANS, NATIVE AMERICANS,
AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF RELOCATION
by
Laura Sachiko Fugikawa
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY)
August 2011
Copyright 2011 Laura Sachiko Fugikawa
Object Description
| Title | Domestic containment: Japanese Americans, Native Americans and the cultural politics of relocation |
| Author | Fugikawa, Laura Sachiko |
| Author email | lsfugikawa@yahoo.com;laurasachiko@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | American Studies and Ethnicity |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-05-11 |
| Date submitted | 2011-08-01 |
| Date approved | 2011-08-01 |
| Restricted until | 2011-08-01 |
| Date published | 2011-08-01 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Halberstam, Judith |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Iwamura, Jane Sanchez, George J. Rowe, John Carlos Tongson, Karen |
| Abstract | Domestic Containment: Japanese Americans, Native Americans and the Cultural Politics of Relocation, is a comparative ethnic and cultural studies project that examines narratives of government-sponsored relocation programs. Domestic Containment expands the limited comparative ethnic studies work that makes connections between Asian American and Native American Studies with a discursive analysis of the pamphlets, manuals and reports of two government agencies: the War Relocation Authority (WRA), which was created in 1943 to encourage and assist residents to move out of Japanese internment camps, and the Voluntary Relocation Program, an agency modeled after the WRA and created in 1956 in order to encourage Native Americans on and near reservations to move to distant cities. While much scholarship that addresses mid-century U.S. race relations has focused on civil rights and integration, little attention has been paid to the U.S. government's attempts to change its method of control from physical containment to policies of containment through ideology, as well as these policies’ long-term effects. ❧ Domestic Containment interrogates the government agencies' creative retellings of historical events that sought to prove the state's benevolent role in the displacement of Japanese Americans and Native Americans. An analysis of government agency training manuals and relocation propaganda illuminates how specific racial and gender formations were endorsed during the post war era of nation building, and became central tenets in the state’s attempted integration of both groups into mainstream American culture. I then turn to Julie Otsuka's novel When The Emperor was Divine and Kent Mackenzie's docudrama The Exiles to consider the lingering effects of dispossession and dispersal felt by those pushed into a diasporic space within a nation state. Reading these three forms of narratives -– government agency documents, fiction and film -– alongside one another provides insight into the psychic costs of belonging amidst mid-twentieth century understandings of citizenship. |
| Keyword | War Relocation Authority; Japanese American resettlement; Native American urban relocation; termination; cultural studies; comparative ethnic studies; gender studies |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | Fugikawa, Laura Sachiko |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume71/etd-FugikawaLa-228.pdf |
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| Full text | DOMESTIC CONTAINMENT: JAPANESE AMERICANS, NATIVE AMERICANS, AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF RELOCATION by Laura Sachiko Fugikawa A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY) August 2011 Copyright 2011 Laura Sachiko Fugikawa |
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