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The book "Between Two Empires" explores the complex relationship between Japanese Americans and the United States and Japan during the prewar era. It challenges the assumption that Japanese Americans had unquestionable loyalty to the United States and delves into the in-between space they occupied between the two countries and their identities. The author also addresses the discredited incarceration of Japanese Americans as a blemish on American democracy.
The incarceration of Japanese Americans has been discredited as a major blemish in American democratic tradition. Accompanying this view is the assumption that the ethnic group held unqualified allegiance to the United States. Between Two Empires probes the complexities of prewar Japanese America to show how Japanese in America held an in-between space between the United States and the empire of Japan, between American nationality and Japanese racial identity.
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