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Memorializing Pearl Harbor examines the challenge of representing history at the site of the attack that brought America into World War II. Analyzing moments in which history is re-presented-in commemorative events, documentary films, museum design, and educational programming-Geoffrey M. White shows that the memorial to the Pearl Harbor bombing is not a fixed or singular institution. Rather, it has become a site in which many histories are performed, validated, and challenged. In addition to valorizing military service and sacrifice, the memorial has become a place where Japanese veterans have come to seek recognition and reconciliation, where Japanese Americans have sought to correct narratives of racial mistrust, and where Native Hawaiians have challenged their ongoing erasure from their own land. Drawing on extended ethnographic fieldwork, White maps these struggles onto larger controversies about public history, museum practices, and national memory.
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Memorializing History 1
1. Survivor Voices 35
2. Cultures of Commemoration 77
3. Memorial Film: Envisioning Race and Nation 129
4. Theming America at War 161
5. Making a New Museum 201
6. Pedagogy, Patriotism, and Paranoia 245
Conclusion. History's Future 265
Appendix 1. Pearl Harbor Bombing Statistics (December 7, 1941) 285
Appendix 2. Chronology of Hawaiian Political History, Postcontact 287
Appendix 3. Chronology of Internment of Japanese Americans and Japanese Residents 289
Appendix 4. Very Brief Filmography of Pearl Harbor Official and Feature Films 291
Notes 293
References 307
Index 319
