2014 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
冷戦初期米軍と米議会のアジア認識実態の解明―安全保障・人種・国籍をめぐって
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25370858
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
HAYASHI Brian 京都大学, 人間・環境学研究科(研究院), 教授 (30314165)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | Cold War / Yellow Peril / World War II / US Congress / US military / race / US politics |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
For this year (FY 2014), I was largely able to meet of my goal of beginning the writing and presentation of my findings. Although the Pat McCarran Papers were not studied, I was able to analyze the papers of US Congressman Bertrand W. Gearhart which suddenly became available during the summer of 2014 and in April, those of US Court of Appeals Justice William Denman housed at the University of California, Berkeley. I also discovered during the summer that the Office of Civilian Defense records in Riverside, California were richer than expected in terms of showing how entrepreneurial elites understood the Yellow Peril (or lack thereof). In addition, I checked the Alfred Kohlberg Papers and John D. Murphy Papers at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University for how the Yellow Peril ideas passed into the immediate postwar era.
Thus, I was able to cover World War II and the immediate postwar years (1940s) reasonably well but did not reach the early 1950s.
I presented a paper based on my new findings on the Yellow Peril racial ideology’s relationship (or lack thereof) with the decision to mass remove and intern west coast Japanese Americans. This was a very surprising find and is controversial in nature since it holds a strong possibility of affecting the course of other’s research in this field in the near future.
It showed how and why the Yellow Peril transformed into the Red Peril, a surprising finding in itself and showed the complexity of this racial ideology.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Two accomplishments were made:
One was to revise the Kilsoo Haan essay, and insert some new materials into the essay and have it accepted for publication with the University of Hawaii Press as part of an anthology to be published in 2016. This was a surprise since normally university presses do not republish an essay but apparently the Press felt it was significant enough to justify its re-publication.
Two, I presented a paper at the “Transpacific Convergence: Studying Nikkei and Race in the U.S. and Japan” Conference, hosted at the University of Southern California entitled, “Wavering Racialists, Hysterical Scholars, and Inept Leaders: Re-examining the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians’ Interpretation of the Japanese American Mass Removal and Internment.” Based on what I learned about Kilsoo Haan’s version of the Yellow Paper, largely done the year before, and combining those new ideas with analysis of the papers of a number of politicians done this year, I was able to show the Yellow Peril was largely absent in the decision to mass remove and intern west coast Japanese Americans.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
I decided against strictly following the research plan for this year as it applies to exploring US Senator Pat McCarran, especially after learning the Nevada State Historical Society archives had extremely limited access hours. I decided it was better to explore other politicians to make better use of my time. In addition, I found the World War II years and the immediate postwar years proved a little bit more complicated than expected, so I decided against moving the focus of my research into the early 1950s. In addition, my preliminary search for Ruth Shipley Papers proved negative, further causing me to confine my work for Fiscal Year 2014 to the 1940s. However, in the next Fiscal Year (2015), I plan to move into the early 1950s, with some new tips about sources. I also plan to work on the re-writing of a number of essays for publication in American history journals, beginning this summer.
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