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Wherever I Go, I Will Always Be a Loyal American: Seattle’s Japanese American Schoolchildren During World War II (Studies in the History of Education)

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Wherever I Go I will At all times Be a Loyal American is the story of how the Seattle public schools responded to the news of its Japanese American (Nisei) students’ internment upon the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 14, 1942. Drawing upon prior to now untapped letters and compositions written by the students themselves right through the time during which the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the internment order took place, Pak explores how the schools and their students attempted to deal with evident contradiction and dissonance in democracy and citizenship. Emerging from the school district’s tradition of emphasizing equality of all races and the federal government’s forced evacuation orders in line with racial exclusion, this dissonance became real and lived experience for Nisei school children, whose cognitive dissonance is best possible revealed in poignant phrases like “I’m and will At all times be an American citizen.”

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