Add to ORKGI argue that American anti-Japanese racism enabled the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. American narratives of race fostered antipathy toward the Japanese to the extent that the Japanese became expendable. The accumulation of an increasingly racist anti-Japanese popular aesthetic, which took the form of textual, visual, musical, and filmic propaganda, resulted in the animalization and, subsequent, dehumanization of the Japanese people. This dehumanization allowed for the “ethical” bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for diplomatic advantage with Russia. I conclude that the aesthetic, and its accumulation, possesses the ethical power to condition genocide and that America’s dehumanizing aesthetic narratives of the Japanese people enabled t...
Traditionally it is argued that the Atomic bombs were dropped to end WWII as the best solution to sa...
In the ashes of post-World War II Japan and among the widespread poverty and devastation, cheap ente...
The controversy that erupted in March over the publication of Charles Pellegrino’s account of the at...
Now for over 70 years people have been arguing about the reasons for dropping atomic bombs on Hirosh...
In the last six months of WWII, the United States conducted a bombing campaign in Japan that would m...
There is a belief that the use of the atomic bombs caused the end of the Pacific War and thus saved ...
I wish I could argue that the world had properly absorbed the lessons of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...
The 20th century was an age of extremes. In this article I concentrate on two disasters, the Holocau...
Almost forgotten in the haze of events that followed Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the summer of 1945 witn...
At the end of World War II, Japan, as well as the rest of the world, was thrust into a new age of un...
There is very little doubt that Hiroshima has become a testament to the destructive capacity of mank...
At the end of the twentieth century there was a critical shift from prioritizing the anti-aesthetic ...
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Though he was one of the first to see its effects, Lewis was not the first to question the decision ...
Much has been written about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, however, an element often...
Traditionally it is argued that the Atomic bombs were dropped to end WWII as the best solution to sa...
In the ashes of post-World War II Japan and among the widespread poverty and devastation, cheap ente...
The controversy that erupted in March over the publication of Charles Pellegrino’s account of the at...
Now for over 70 years people have been arguing about the reasons for dropping atomic bombs on Hirosh...
In the last six months of WWII, the United States conducted a bombing campaign in Japan that would m...
There is a belief that the use of the atomic bombs caused the end of the Pacific War and thus saved ...
I wish I could argue that the world had properly absorbed the lessons of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...
The 20th century was an age of extremes. In this article I concentrate on two disasters, the Holocau...
Almost forgotten in the haze of events that followed Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the summer of 1945 witn...
At the end of World War II, Japan, as well as the rest of the world, was thrust into a new age of un...
There is very little doubt that Hiroshima has become a testament to the destructive capacity of mank...
At the end of the twentieth century there was a critical shift from prioritizing the anti-aesthetic ...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/75748/1/j.1467-9558.2006.00295.x.pd
Though he was one of the first to see its effects, Lewis was not the first to question the decision ...
Much has been written about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, however, an element often...
Traditionally it is argued that the Atomic bombs were dropped to end WWII as the best solution to sa...
In the ashes of post-World War II Japan and among the widespread poverty and devastation, cheap ente...
The controversy that erupted in March over the publication of Charles Pellegrino’s account of the at...