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How did female Protestant missionaries respond to the Japanese American incarceration experience during World War II?, documents selected and interpreted by Beth Hessel

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How did female Protestant missionaries respond to the Japanese American incarceration experience during World War II?, documents selected and interpreted by Beth Hessel

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eng

Main title

How did female Protestant missionaries respond to the Japanese American incarceration experience during World War II?

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dictionaries

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911735981

Responsibility statement

documents selected and interpreted by Beth Hessel

Series statement

Women and social movements: scholar's edition

Summary

This project analyzes the work of female Protestant missionaries among Japanese Americans during World War II, primarily in the Japanese American incarceration camps, but also pre-evacuation, and post-war. While furloughed from Japan, some missionaries attempted to ameliorate the injustice of detention through a ministry of friendship and advocacy. These documents exhibit the tentative and improvisatory nature of female mission work during the war and suggest how these missionaries understood the incarceration experience and their role in it

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