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Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. government rounded up more than one hundred thousand Japanese Americans and sent them to internment camps. One of those internees was Charles Kikuchi. In thousands of diary pages, he documented his experiences in the camps, his resettlement in Chicago and drafting into the Army on the eve of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his postwar life as a social worker in New York City. Kikuchi's diaries bear witness to a watershed era in American race relations, and expose both the promise and the hypocrisy of American democracy. Jim and Jap Crow follows Kikuchi's personal odyssey among fellow Japanese American intellectuals, immigrant activists, Chicago School social scientists, everyday people on Chicago's South Side, and psychologically scarred veterans in the hospitals of New York. The book chronicles a remarkable moment in America's history in which interracial alliances challenged the limits of the elusive democratic ideal, and in which the nation was forced to choose between civil liberty and the fearful politics of racial hysteria. It was an era of world war and the atomic bomb, desegregation in the military but Jim and Jap Crow elsewhere in America, and a hopeful progressivism that gave way to Cold War paranoia. Jim and Jap Crow looks at Kikuchi's life and diaries as a lens through which to observe the possibilities, failures, and key conversations in a dynamic multiracial America.

African Americans --- Japanese Americans --- Race discrimination --- Kibei Nisei --- Nisei --- Ethnology --- Japanese --- Bias, Racial --- Discrimination, Racial --- Race bias --- Racial bias --- Racial discrimination --- Discrimination --- Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945 --- Internment of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945 --- Relocation of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Social conditions --- History --- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. --- Evacuation of civilians --- Kikuchi, Charles. --- Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.) --- United States. --- United States --- Race relations --- Forced removal of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945 --- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 --- Forced removal of civilians --- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945. --- A. Philip Randolph. --- African American progressives. --- African American soldiers. --- African Americans. --- Alien Registration Act. --- America. --- American democracy. --- American race relations. --- Americanism. --- Asians. --- Charles Kikuchi. --- Chicago School. --- Chicago. --- Cold War ideology. --- Committee on Civil Rights. --- Department of Justice. --- Dorothy Swaine Thomas. --- East Coast Schools. --- FBI. --- FDR. --- Fair Employment Practices Commission. --- German Americans. --- Gila River Relocation Center. --- Harry Truman. --- JERS. --- Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study. --- Japanese American. --- Japanese Americans. --- Japanese descent. --- Japanese. --- Louis Adamic. --- Military Intelligence Service Language School. --- Nisei intellectuals. --- Nisei. --- Pearl Harbor. --- Tanforan horse stalls. --- West Coast. --- alienable rights. --- camp life. --- civil liberty. --- conservative ideology. --- democracy. --- diary. --- education waiver. --- enemy aliens. --- ethnicity. --- filiopietism. --- immigrant. --- internment camp. --- internment. --- interracial alliances. --- interracial conflicts. --- military hierarchy. --- minorities. --- multiracial America. --- oppression. --- pluralist advocates. --- prejudice. --- progressivism. --- race relations. --- race. --- racial discrimination. --- racism. --- religious discrimination. --- resettlement. --- resettlers. --- segregation. --- sociologists. --- subversive aliens. --- urban spaces. --- California --- Biography --- 20th century --- To 1964 --- Kikuchi, Charles