Despite decades of scholarly research and popular accounts produced about the Japanese American internment since the last of 10 concentration camps closed at the end of World War II, two phenomena remain either unknown or relegated to the status of anomalies: two camps called Rohwer and Jerome were located in the Deep South, in the south-eastern corner of Arkansas known as the Delta; and Japanese American (Nisei) girls as young as six repeatedly performed traditionally all-male kabuki for huge, mixed crowds of spectators there. At Rohwer and Jerome, the US government's anti-Japanese policy enforced by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) intersected with the spectacular enforcement of anti-black Jim Crow segregation laws in the Deep South. The WRA patrolled internee relations at the Arkansas camps using a policy properly dubbed a??cultural segregation,a?? which did little to prevent highly popular Nisei girlsa?? kabuki shows from being performed at Rohwer and Jerome.View full textDownload full textKeywordsJapanese Americans, internment, concentration camps, World War II, performance, resistanceRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true,"ui_click":true}; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0740770X.2010.492177
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