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