Is That Legal?

Loyal Subjects

Patriotism On Trial: An In-Depth Study on the Japanese American Joint Board

The Loyalty War: How US Government Vagueness and Infighting Doomed Japanese American Internees (I like the title better than the subtitle, but it's something to work with)

Institutionalized Loyalty: Japanese American WWII Internees and Their Bureaucratic Overlords (Ooh, fell apart at the end....)

Seven-Tenths Loyal: Japanese American Internees and US Institutions

Beyond the No-No Boys: How three in ten internees were judged disloyal.

OK, now I'll let someone else play....

The Loyal Inquisition: ...

Fill in the subtitle, if necessary.

eric: obviously you're writing at least in part of "defining loyalty," but it would help if you could provide a little more information about the book. who is your likely audience? who is your *desired* audience? (that is, if the book were to be on a display shelf at borders, who would you want to pick it up?) what do you want the title to do? generally speaking, i'd avoid words like "study" or "bureaucracy" - sure signs of a snoozer.

Matt, interesting! No one would expect the Loyal Inquisition.

The likely audience, in descending order of interest, will be (1) my parents, (2) students to whom I assign the book, and (3) people interested in World War II history, Asian American history, American legal history, and civil rights history.

Seriously, because the focus of this book is on the government rather than on stories of individual Japanese Americans, I anticipate that its market will be more academic than my first book, which was a fairly dramatic story about people confronting injustice.

Dividing Loyalties: How America Judged the Patriotism of Japanese-Americans During WWII.

I think it is really hard to come with a pithy (or short) subtitle for this book.

How about Yellow Scare: Bureaucracy, Agendas, and Loyalty During WWII?

Attention-getting, but academic.

I also think that those of us who study organizational behavior and bureaucracy might also be interested.

I love "Yellow Scare"; in fact, that was my working title! But I'm persuaded that it is a bad idea because it is likely to insult Asian American readers. If I were myself Asian American, I might be able to pull it off. (Maybe.) But I'm not, and I'm persuaded that I can't.

Democratic Inquisition:
Japanese Internment and the Roots of McCarthyism

[instead od democratic, one could use "patriotic" or "American"]

From Yellow Peril to Red Scare:
The Government, Japanese Americans, and Judging Loyalty

(perhaps more later)

oops neither of those would be terribly original anymore.

If I were myself Asian American, I might be able to pull it off. (Maybe.)

That's what you get for sending a white man to... err, nevermind.

Will the Circle Be Broken? The Federal Government's Loyalty Inquisitions in Times of Crisis

Trial by Bureaucracy

Judging Loyalty in the Ashes of Pearl Harbor

1. A Corruption of Blood. (The idea being this program betrayed ideals set forth in the Constitution).

2. Under His Vine and Fig Tree (This refers to Washington's letter to the Newport Hebrew Congregation. (I like it because Neocons-- who seem to travel with the Malkin crowd-- are themselves often accused (unfairly) of dual loyalty when they have a Jewish background.)

3. Memoirs of an Inkstained Professor: How I Overcame Childhood Abuse, Drug Dependency and Allergies by Reading in Archives About Two WWII Bureaucracies (This will really sell-- check out the NYT Bestseller list.)

Loyalty Mechanisms: Wartime Bureaucracy at it's Worst

A Tale of Two Agencies (with apologies to Mr. Dickens)

Nobody Expects the American Inquisition! (with apologies to Monty Python)

Presumed Traitors: Japanese Americans and the Loyalty Bureaucracy of WWII

My suggestion, as just e-mailed to Eric:

A Finding of Disloyalty, which comes directly from the text of his draft. I feel it is appropriate, because Eric writes that about 25% of the Japanese-Americans were judged to be disloyal.

My subtitle: Judging the Loyalty of Japanese-Americans During World War Two. I will try to think of a better subtitle, but I like the title I picked.

Snow Falling on Bureaujaps.

Not Loyal Enough: Bureaucratic Surveillance of Japanese Americans in World War II

American Loyalty: A study of the federal government's witchhunt for Japanese spies during WWII.

Obviously about the government, witchhunts are attention grabbing...what could be better?

Although Yellow Scare is good...

how 'bout:

Citizens Without a Country: Government Assumption of the Disloyalty of Japanese Americans during World War Two.

Judging Loyalty: Into the Bowels of the Wartime Beauracracy.

Harry Potter and the American Inquisition

Proving Dis/Loyalty: Japanese -Americans, WWII and...
Sorry, I am bad with sub-titles.

Domo, Arigato, Gozaimashita: How the U.S Betrayed Its Own Citizens.

this is just a working thought. we lived in japan for a year, and the japanese words [as i understand them, and you definitely shouldn't depend on me] mean thanks, thank you, and a very very formal thank you. i said those words to everyone, in an effort to get along. being a polite society, people in japan were kind, even though i was a world-class klutz with language and cultural norms.

the first part of the title idea is meant to be ironic.

we have many friends of japanese ancestry. there were a few times when i was a fly on the wall, and some elder relatives of friends were comparing their childhood experiences in internment camps. it was not easy for them to discuss, but the memories were so vivid. almost everyone had certain foods they couldn't eat after camp. no one spoke openly about the elephant in the room -- what their families had built and then lost when they were sent to the camps. there was a sense of gratitude about having overcome that terrible time.

i can't pretend to know the true feelings of camp survivors who shared some stories in my presence, but it makes me angry they were subjected to that. i admire how the elders i heard and their relatives rallied, and made the best of things during and after internment. but it is deeply embarassing and horrible that this country treated its citizens so badly.

Driving While Asiatic
Racial Profiling During the "Good War"

or

Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been Japanese?

or

The Phiraderphia Experiment

...everything I come up with is cutting across the camps & bureaucracy theme. The sub-title matters only after you've picked the title, I think.

Barbed-Wire Memos

(Which leads to)

Across the Wire: The Bureaucratic War over Japanese Internment (maybe over-dramatic, but that's the point, innit?) (Internees works, too, but they weren't all interned)

Hrmm. I guess that should be The Bureaucratic War Over Japanese Loyalties (or maybe "Japanese "Disloyalty"")

Watchtowers of the Bureaucracy: same sub

Actually A Tarpaper Shack Bureaucracy might work better.

Climb Mount Loyalty with the same sub would be a spiffy historical reference. Given that, in the end, Pearl Harbor was not a very successful attack, and internment wasn't a very successful policy.

and bowels, bureacracy, and dragons, thus
Digesting the Nisei (same sub as above).

ash
['Hrmm.']

I Judge Allegiance to the Flag: The Government Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty during World War II

Discriminating Loyalty: America's Hunt for An Enemy during Wartime

That's it for me so far...I'm still thinking about it though. If, in the unlikely event, I should win, I would like my giftcard to go to BitchPhD, since I wouldn't even have known this was happening without her...and she rocks.

Loyalty Oafs: How the U.S., with Japanese Enemies Over There, Fought Itself in Gauging Japanese-American Patriotism Over Here During World War II.

Or, if you get the Erudite Redneck Press to publish it:

Nipped in the Bud: How the U.S. Caught One of Four Disloyal Japanese-Americans During World War II.

(Sorry!)

Treasons of the Heart:

Assessing Allegiance:

American Inquisition:

Invisible Allegiances:

Interrogation and Internment:

Measuring Loyalty:

and then after the colon, I'd go with the: U.S. Measures of Japanese American Loyalty in WW2. (unless you chose the last one, in which case after the colon it might say: United States assessment of Japanese Americans during ww2.

The main thing is that it's a good intro and an interesting topic-- the title will come...

Loyalty Oafs: How the U.S., with Japanese Enemies Over There, Fought Itself in Gauging Japanese-American Patriotism Over Here During World War II.

Or, if you get the Erudite Redneck Press to publish it:

Nipped in the Bud: How the U.S. Caught One of Four Disloyal Japanese-Americans During World War II.

(Sorry!)

Casino Loyale: Why the Crap Shoot of World War II Loyalty Testing Made us All Losers.

The Loyalty Question

with possible subtitles:
The Loyalty Bureaucracy of World War II

A Study of Japanese American Loyalty Assessment during Internment

The Beauracracy of Internment
or
The Bureaucracy of Inquisition

either of which could be followed with a colon and your original subtitle, "The Government and Japanese American Loyalty in World War II"
or
"Government Assessment of Japanese American Loyalty in World War II"

Defining Loyalty

Loyalty Under Review

Questioning Patriotism: ...

Orin Dover Deserves His Name On a Book: Why Law Professors Should Not Have Booknaming Contests, and Stuff About Japs, too

What is loyalty?:Japanese American loyalty during World War II.

I'm absolutely thrilled about your book. Did my Senior thesis for my BA on the intermnet camps. Though I couldn't tell you today what I wrote about.

Loyalty in Paranoid Times: [insert subtitle here]

Or: Japanese-American Loyalty in Paranoid Times

Red, White, Blue, And Yellow...although perhaps any reference to skin color is best left out, historical uses be damned. Too hard to pick up on the satire, or something.

Dueling McCarthys: How Competing Bureaucracies Led to the Escalation of the Japanese-American Internment.

A.L.I.C.E.* Through the Looking Glass
(*A.L.I.C.E.=American Loyalty Is Completely Expected)

Your metaphor of disloyalty as a chimera to the agencies involved in doing the judging evoked an image of an inevitably distorted and contorted conflict involved in judging intent in people while having no right to do so. Furthermore, judging loyalty raises the question: loyalty to what? Answering that in a heterogeneous society while not even having firm legitimacy to ask in the first place surely results in a "through the looking glass" experience, the craziness we have seen in our American Inquisitions. Apologies (and thanks) to Lewis Caroll for the blatant rip-off of (or is it inspiration by?) his idea...but...Is That Legal? Specifically, he wrote "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" so is "A.L.I.C.E.* Through the Looking Glass" infringing? (The copyright may have expired on his work by now anyway). Need a lawyer to answer all this...

The Imperfect System of Assessing Loyalty to Country

OK, I'll throw my hat in the ring:

Citizens Unlike Us: The American Right's Loyalty Paradigm for Japanese-Americans During WWII

No Presumption of Innocence: Bureaucratic Efforts to Determine the Loyalty of Japanese-American Internees during the Second World War

Un-American Bureaucracy: The Trial of Japanese Americans During World War II

Variation on some things you liked:
Spy Hunting in World War II: Bureaucracy and the Yellow Scare

Loyalty in World War II: Japanese Americans on Trial

Maybe something emphasizing the result rather than the policy? Something that includes the fate (condemnation or internment) rather than just the test of Japanese Americans.

Bureaucracy of Condemnation: Japanese Americans and World War II

American Loyalty Tests: The Communists & The Japanese "Failed", Will You Fail Next?

First in Time: Misjudging the Loyalty of Japanese Americans After Pearl Harbor

Loyal Flush: The Uneven Hand Dealt to Japanese Americans During World War II

Persecuting the Peril: America's Discriminating Loyalty

Although the Monty Python title has it's merits! ;)

Also taken from your text:

Chimera: Bureaucracy, Paranoia, and Japanese-American (Dis)Loyalty During WWII

or

Finding the Line: Judging Japanese-American Loyalty During WWII

I was going to suggest The Loyal Imposition, but I saw someone had come up with Inquisition, which is less obtuse.

Racial Profiling and Why it Failed in the 1940's

Disloyal by Definition: Federal Assessment of Japanese-Americans During World War II

An Enemy Race: Loyalty Findings of Japanese-Americans in World War II (The prefacing quote comes from DeWitt's letter of 1942 wherein he claims that "The Japanese race is an enemy race. . . .")

Gosh -- the conventions for academic titles are so bland, aren't they?

Legally Loyal? Judging loyalty in America.

Betrayal by Bureaucracy
How the U.S. Government Suspended the Constitution for Japanese Americans during WWII

Spying on Citizens: Testing the Loyalty of Japanese Americans in WWII

The Internment Files: Government and Disloyalty in America

The Machinery of Loyalty: How Federal Patriotism-Testing Agencies Failed in World War II

Questioning The Color of Loyalty: How Two Goverment Agencies decided the fate of thousands.

or other subtitle De jour

I do like incorporating the questionnaires used to make the evaluations into the title.

Questioning The Color of Loyalty: How Two Goverment Agencies decided the fate of thousands.

I like incorporating the questionnaires used to make the evaluations into the title.

Guilty Until Proven Guilty: U.S. Investigations of Japanese-American Loyalty During WWII

None Dare Call It Bureaucracy: The Botched Administrative Loyalty Trials of Japanese-Americans During WWII

Friendly Fire on the Home Front: The Misguided Loyalty Trials of Japanese-Americans During WWII

Also, if you see fit to include an epigraph, I recommend: "There's no art/To find the mind's construction in the face." Macbeth, I.ii. The king is remarking on the difficulty of determining who is truly loyal (and settles on Macbeth as his new right-hand man).

My suggestions:

The Wrong Face At the Wrong Time
The Mismeasure of Loyalty
Traitors, Traitors Everywhere

Use your imagination on the subtitles.

By the way, the suggestion a few comments above -- "Snow Falling on Bureaujaps" -- is hysterical.

I'm new to the page, and a scientist, not a historian. Enough disclaimers already- I like the idea of a tongue-in-cheek reference to the constituation in the title, something like,

Securing the Blessings of Liberty: The Questioning of Japanese American Loyalty during WWII.

Is that too cheesey?

Neat contest- good luck with the title quest. :)

Loyalty Apparatus: The Inner Workings of the Japanese American Joint Board

Finding Treason

or the more pretentious:

Chimeras of Treason

Drawing inspiration from previous suggestions and especially from the first two sentences of the crucial third paragraph of the introductory chapter, I came up with:

The Apparatus of Fealty: The Untold Story of the Japanese American Joint Board

(I'm worried that the "untold story" part is a bit corny, but the novelty of the book's contribution is worth highlighting.)

America's Political Exiles: the Story of Japanese-American Internment

The Internment: Race and Citizenship in America

It's funny, American research-based books seem to all follow this naming standard:

[Colourful metaphor or quote]: X, Y and Z in the field of A.

Like Skull and Crossbones: swashing, buckling and plankwalking in Caribbean Seafaring Culture.

Or anyway this one:
[Strong, colourful statement]: [dryer, longer description of book].

Maybe it would be cool to shy away from that.

The Japanese American Joint Board and its Dueling Definitions of Domestic Devotion, 1943-1944

They Love Their Country, They Love It Not: The Japanese American Joint Board's Disjunctive Discourse on Loyalty, 1943-1944

One in Four, Maybe More: Japanese American Internees and State Determinations of Disloyalty, 1943-1944

Adverse Findings: Japanese-Americans, Internment, and the Loyalty Test

The Board: The Failure of Racial Profiling, Bureaucracy, and the Abrogation of Civil Rights as means to ensure Japanese-American Loyalty

The Color of Loyalty

Like that?

... But I Know It When I See It; Loyalty Hearings of Japanese Americans in WWII

I'm still haunted by George Takai's comments about reciting the pledge of allegiance behind barbed wire. Therefore I suggest:

With Liberty and Justice? Japanese Americans and Legal Presumptions of Disloyalty during WWII

How about:

Loyal Hope Survives: Japanese American Persecution during World War II

I stole the line from Austin, and here's the full quote below:

AUTHOR: Alfred Austin (1835–1913)
QUOTATION: So long as faith with freedom reigns
And loyal hope survives,
And gracious charity remains
To leaven lowly lives;
While there is one untrodden tract
For intellect or will,
And men are free to think and act,
Life is worth living still.

Long time, no comment (that's not a title) My suggestions are

Books by Their Cover: The WWII foundations of US government loyalty boards

(the subtitle probably needs to be adjusted depending on your conclusion. WWII foundations might be 'the secret racist past of', though this is rather inflammatory)

A Terrible Loyalty: (similar subtitle?)

(comes from a GK Chesterton quote:
"We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.")

I like the latter one, because I imagine that you will discuss the fact that Japanese-American organizations were part of this process, and the fact that the community itself was asked to determine loyalty/disloyalty perhaps meant that many of the mechanisms in this particular case (as with the No-No boys and other aspects of the internment) were self enforced to a certain degree.

GI Jap or Yellow Spy? How Bureaucrats stamped and stomped Japanese Americans during WWII.

Questioning Loyalty: When The Answers Were Given By Bureaucrats. The oppression of Japanese-American during WWII.

Are you loyal to US? The Japanese-American Question and its Federal Response during WWII.

Patriot Games: The Untold Story of the Japanese American Loyalty Trials

Wow. I'm quite sure I can't do any better than these. Perhaps something starting with "A Question of Loyalty..." or something starting with "Beyond Reason..." Or, if there's some catchy phrase in one of the letters/documents you used, that could be good.

It looks really interesting, Eric. Thanks for sharing the intro with us. Now I'll be waiting breathlessly for the book!

I'm going to piggy back off of Corey's idea.
How about - Surrender Everything!: How America Judged the Patriotism of Japanese-Americans During WWII.

two metaphorical title suggestions:
The Flag inside the Heart--How the U.S. Measured Japanese-American Loyalty during WWII

Under the Ginkgo Tree--Government and Japanese-American Loyalty during WWII
(according to http://www.xs4all.nl/~kwanten/art.htm ginkgos were a samurai symbol of loyalty)

Held As A Pawn: Conflicting Standards of Loyalty Applied to Japanese-American WW2 Detainees

Held as a Pawn is a quote of sorts from Kent in King Lear, as he tries to step between Lear and his banishment of the "ungrateful" Cordelia.

Yellow Tape: An Examination of the Bureaucracy Behind Internment Camps

hmm. . . i usually like simple, but somewhat vague titles:

Apparatuses of Loyalty

Without having read the whole book this is tough. You mentioned insulting questions, you might want to mine those questions for something really strange to put in the title, something that would make readers go "Wtf? they really did that?". Or any stirring personal quotes?

Or else, you have my suggestions. Feel free to mix and match the first and second parts. I really like the second part of yours, but frankly the first part has me confused and doesn't spark my interest. And I'm a historian.

Suspicious Loyalty: or
Suspect Loyalty: Citizenship, Loyalty, and Japanese Americans in WWII

Citizen Traitors: the suspicion of treason on Japanese Americans in WWII

Japanese First, Americans second:

Japanese First, Americans last:

Searching for traitors:

Beyond Internment: Japanese Americans in WWII

Beyond Barbwire: Japanese Americans and the suspicion of disloyalty in WWII

Let me know if any are at all useful.

Loyalty's Reflections

(playing on the idea that the government was reflecting on its citizens loyalty, and yet, all that was reflected back was its own preconceptions)

Title: Judgement in the American Gulag

Subtitle: Bureaucratic Oversight of Japanese-American Concentration Camp Victims During WWII

Probably can do better on the subtitle. But use the terms "Bureaucracy" and "concentration camp" - accurate and attentiong getting.

Is this chapter availible in something other than Microsoft Word format? I don't have Word. Or Windows for that matter.

How We Won: The Secret Bureaucracy that Saved America During WWII

The boyfriend and I are batting around variations on an idea:

Primary Loyalties: Red Tape, Yellow Peril, and True-Blue Americans

Primary Loyalties:  How the "Yellow Peril" Tied Up True-Blue Americans in Red Tape

Primary Loyalties: Red Tape, True-Blue Americans, and the "Yellow Peril"

True Blue or "Yellow Peril"? How the Primary Loyalties of Japanese Americans Got Tied Up in Red Tape During WWII

True Blue or Yellow Peril? Red Tape, Primary Loyalty, and the Japanese American Joint Board, 19xx-19yy

Strangers in the Homeland: Judging Japanese-American Loyalty During WWII

Rigor and Not Law: Japanese-American Loyalty Trials During World War II

("Rigor and Not Law" comes from one of Hermione's speeches in The Winter's Tale, after she's been falsely accused of adultery: "But for mine honour,/ Which I would free, if I shall be condemn'd/Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else/ But what your jealousies awake, I tell you/
'Tis rigor and not law.")

You're Either With Us... and then a pithy subtitle.

No Sense of Decency: Bureaucratic Machines Determining Japanese American Loyalty

I think I'd prefer it without "Japanese American" (i.e. Bureaucratic Machines Determinig Loyalty) as I think it flows better, but then it might come across as actually being about McCarthy.

Definition of Loyalty

I think it's best to look for titles in your subject matter, or in your own phrases. The above is one. You could also go for Definition of Disloyalty, or Defining Loyalty (I think someone said that). Or add "The" or "A" to the beginning. If you can find some particularly egregious turns of phrase that fit, ideally coming from the Board itself, use them. I think subtitles are grossly overused these days, but you'll probably be forced into having one by your publisher.

Frankly, though, Yellow Scare is what I immediately thought of while reading it, so I'm not surprised to see it suggested here already. I think that the offensiveness of the term is *exactly* the point. The whole shameful deal was an outgrowth of the Hearst-promoted Yellow Peril hysteria earlier in the century, and it prefigures, as you point out in this introduction, the great Red Scare(s) in postwar America. It's an excellent title, though it does, sadly, need a subtitle...

And boy will it catch the eye.

A Question of Loyalty
The Spoken Doubt
The Spoken Question
The Dilemna At Home
Many Ears
War Insurance
To Be Sure
To Be Safe
Necessary Evil
Under Suspicion
For The Greater Good

These can all be expanded with subtitles, not to mention maybe question marks or ellipses to throw the title off in a questionable sense. Like, "Necessary Evil?" Something like that.

I think either Inside The Barbed Wire or Outside The Barbed Wire. Also there is a wonderful Haiku by Suiko Matsushita that so points to the dispair yet creativity of those men and women who were forced into the internment camps:

Rain shower from mountain
quietly soaking
barbed wire fence.
by Suiko Matsushita

An American Star Chamber: How the Government defined Loyalty in World War II

A Question of Honor

Into the Bowels
An Inquiry Into the US govt's Investigation and Analysis of Japanese Loyalty During WW2.

Lessons In Loyalty: Judging the Loyalty of Japanese Americans in WWII.

or maybe

Measures of Loyalty: Japanese Americans in WWII.

Arbitrating Loyalty: America v. Japanese-Americans during WWII

Along the Judging line but making it feel like a court case title

Loyal Enemies

A glass-half-full view of this otherwise grim topic:

"Thicker than Blood: Japanese-American Patriotism during WWII"

I know you're just looking for a title, but I'd suggest broadening the subject matter as well. The book will appeal to a much larger audience if you can translate what you've learned to the current war on terror. Keep it non-ideological so that it stays instructive and gets people across the political spectrum to think more seriously about the real dilemma of tribe versus country.

"Almost American"

"Rising Sun, Glaring Eagle"

Episode III: A New Honda

All Your Loyalty Are Belong To Us

The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
(From Twilight Zone episode... have to be a sci-fi geek like me, tho :)

Red Dot in (on) America

A Question of Loyalty (Loyalties)

Empire Mine

Country of Origin

Asian Tide

The East in the West

Which Ones?

Wheat from the Chaffe

Litmus Test

The 70% Solution: How the End Justified the Means

Concentrated In Justice : How the US utilized a dysfunctional system to determine Japanese American Loyalty during WWII

Not entirely happy with the overall wording but I think the idea is good.

The Rising Sun over the Land of the Free
Judging the Loyalty of Japanese Americans during WWII

A Broad Brush: Whitewashing the Misjudgements of Patriots

Toad, the Wet Sprocket (why not integrate a Monty Python reference?)

Nip/Tuck

The Big Yawn: How I wasted 8 months of my life and 8 hours of Yours

I think I'm Turning in the Japanese, I think I'm Turning in the Japanese, I think I'm Turning in the Japanese, I really think so.

How the United Was to blame for Pearl Harbor.

If you want to sell books and get on NPR:

Why George W. Bush is to Blame for the Japanese Internment Problem

ILLIBERTY BY COMMITTEE: BLIND BUREAUCRATS DRAWING LOYALTY BOUNDARIES IN TIMES OF WAR

Anything, anything, without a colon in it. you know those clever two or three word titles that are not really that clever or they wouldn't need a short paragraph to explain them.

For example: In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror --Horrible title, when did people start using their thesis statement as a subordinate clause in the title?

Great start, can't wait for the book...

Reasonable Grounds: Loyalty As A Construct

Reasonable Grounds: The High Cost of Loyalty

FDR's Other Deal : Concentration Camps

Loyalty in Shadows
The Secret Workings of the Washington Bureaucracy During World War II.

Roosevelt's Treachery: Hoover Never Would Have Done It

Heartless Mountain

The subtitle is longish, but ...

1. Masters of Loyalty: Government's futile quest for Japanese spies in our midst during World War II

2. Ghostly Infidels: (same subtitle)

3. The Loyalty Mania: (same subtitle)

4. Defining Disloyalty Down: (same subtitle)

"Jaundiced Justice"

I guess that fails the "yellow" test?

Eric--

You need to rewrite this intro. chapter. It needs to be more compelling. More important, you need to succinctly express in the first two grafs what you're up to. The first graf about the '50s Red Scare is just wheel-spinning. Get passionate. Quote from some govt. docs. that you find outrageous. Give an example of someone whose life was ruined. You've got a book about the creepy Orwellian machinery that ruined thousands of lives. Scare me. Make me want to pay you the big bucks.

Titles? The Loyalty Dilemma. The Loyalty Monster. Cruel Loyalty. The Nightmare Machine. America's Ministry of Truth.....

Good luck,
George Spencer

How about...

Odour of Internment: Tokyo Rose? Or bureaucracy's bowel?

Do not forget John Adams and the Alien and Sedition acts. Loyalty testing goes back to the founding parents.

Searching for Disloyalty: Assessing American Allegiance from World War II to the Global War on Terror.

Shaking the Cherry Blossoms: The Inquisition into Japanese-American Loyalty During WWII

The cover illustration would be cherry blossoms -- a long standing symbol with deep meaning in Japanese culture.

American Liberty: Constructed of Trust / Eroded by Fear

The Structure of Suspicion: The Bureaucratic Assessment of Japanese American Loyalty During World War II.

Whose Side Are You On?

Assumed Foreign: Japanese American citizens on Trial in WWII.

Or,

Foreign Citizens:

Just because the assumption of Asian Americans being foreign is so widespread, even today.

Either that or

Stephen King's _The Loyalty Test_

I hear people will buy ANYTHING with his name on it... ;)

What Color Is Your Flag? Assessing the Patriotism of Ordinary (Japanese) Americans During World War II

In The Eyes Of The Beholder: Differing Treatment & Bureacratic In-Fighting Regarding Loyalty Tests in WWII

This is an excellent diversion from writing my own novel. ^_^

Titles --
All The Emperor's Men:

Not of Caution, But of Fear:

Nothing So Terrible:

Fear and Self-Interest:

Sudden Desertion:

What We Really Despise:

Landlords to a Ghost:

Subtitles --
Investigating Japanese-American Loyalty in WWII
Fear and Treason after Pearl Harbor
Phantom Traitors in the Eyes of the State
The Betrayal of the American Ideal

Harry Potter and the Legacy of Japanese-American Internment

Guaranteed to boost your sales...

On Reasonable Grounds: Guilty by Birth

For Their Own Protection. How Americans Ignored the Constitution and Interned Their Fellow Citizens

Destroying American Lives for Fun and Profit

bill.

Open Source Media?

Are You With Us or Against Us?

When Loyalty Isn't Enough

Outsiders Among Us

Outsiders Inside

My only thoughts:

-Policing Loyalty
-The Loyalty Trials

For a subtitle, perhaps:

-the U.S. government's efforts to judge disloyalty among Japanese-Americans
-the story of Japanese-Americans forced to prove their loyalty

Judging Loyalties: Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and the Struggle to Define American Patriotism

Good luck with the book - sounds interesting!

Living in Fear

Fisking Michelle Malkin: Why a free society should not have a loyalty test

Standing Alone: How a nation judge's disloyalty in a time of war

eomonroe00@aol.com

Few sets of ideas - all playing off the "key" paragraph in the intro that talks about the lack of a definitive standard for Loyalty. I know it is the key paragragh because you talk about "real problem" "in truth" and "the important point" ;)

Set A: the "Blind Justice" theme
1. Blind Justice: The Efforts of the Bureaucracy to Measure Japanese American Loyalty during WWII

2. Was Justice Blind?: A study of the shifting standards used to determine Japanese American Loyalty during WWII

Set B: Defining Loyalty
1. Defining Loyalty: A study of the shifting standards used to determine Japanese American Loyalty during WWII

2. The Chimera of Loyalty: A study of the shifting standards used to determine Japanese American Loyalty during WWII

Set C: Projecting (Dis)loyalty
1. Projecting Disloyalty: Why the Loyalty Trials of WWII said more about the Bureaucratic Agencies involved then about the Japanese-Americans subjected to them.

2. Projecting Loyalty: Why the Loyalty Trials of WWII said more about the Bureaucratic Agencies involved then about the Japanese-Americans subjected to them.

"Those who do not learn from history..."

Prove You're Loyal (But We Can't Figure Out How)

Include a graphic of the loyalty forms on the cover, with two hands & wrists (cufflinks in the style of the day, ancronyms of the two agencies visible) one thumbs-up, one thumbs-down.

"SCARE TACTICS"
The evolution of Loyalty within the American Political process.

Reasonable Grounds: How Is The Loyalty Of American Citizens Determined?

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Assummed Disloyal

Habeus Corpse: The Inquisition of Japanesse-Americans during WW II

Part-time Citizens

Presumed Guilt

Yellow Stain

The Yellow Stain of American Freedom

The Yellow Stain on American Freedoms

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Why being Japanese-American during WWII sucked.

disLOYALTY
U.S. Citizens Under Attack

Lots of good suggestions up top.

Trial by Committee: How Bureaucrats Judged Loyalty in WWII

The Loyalty Gauge

or

Conviction: Judging Japanese-American Loyalty During World War II

American Bureaucratic Jingoism of WWII
America's Bureaucratic Jingoism of WWII

The Loyalty Chimera: A Bureaucratic Mechanism for Judging Japanese-American Loyalty During WWII

Disloyal: Bureaucracy and the Wartime Investigation of Japanese Americans

Split Decision: Judging the Loyality of Japanese Internee's

How about:

Japanese takeout

Fidelity, Freedom and Fear

(subtitle)
Weighing Loyalties at War

The Price of Loyalty: Loyalty Tests and Internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII and How they Apply to America's War on Terror

Fear, Loyalty, and the Uncertain Future

The Price of Loyalty: Loyalty Tests and Internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII and How they Affect America's War on Terror

Sex, Lies and Loyalty Tests: How all of America's problems, throughout all time, are really Madonna's fault

The Uncomfy Chair I: Japanese Ancestry vs. American Bureaucracy

or

With follow ups like:

The Uncomfy Chair II: A Bout with McCarthyism
The Uncomfy Chair III: Vietman vs. Hippified America
The Uncomfy Chair IV: A Malaise a' Carter
The Uncomfy Chair V: Reagon vs. Gorbacav, a comeback story
The Uncomfy Chair VI: America vs Tinpot
The Uncomfy Chair VII: Second European Tour
The Uncomfy Chair VIII: September 11th and a Time of Turbans
The Uncomfy Chair IX: Tinpot II

P.S. George Spencer is correct about honing and tightening it up. Google Dan Gilmor and "We the Media" to see what he did with his book. He posted the chapters and people commented them before producing the final version.

The Japanese American Joint Board: Bureaucratic Arrogance and the Loyalty Trials, 1943-1945

Testing Loyalty: Bureaucratic Conflicts and the Fabrication of Japanese-American Subversion in World War II

Imagined Subversives: Japanese-Americans and the Bureaucracy of Loyalty in World War II

Divided Loyalty: Bureaucratic Conflicts and the Fabrication of Japanese-American Subversion in World War II

An alternate subtitle: "....the Bureaucratic Fabrication of Japanese-American Subversion in World War II

A Test of Allegiance: (insert subtitle)

"The Invisible Paranoid Loyalty Machine"

Loyalty Scare

Now or Every Been

Not American Enough: The Legal Inquisition of Japaenese-Americans in the Shadow of WWII.

Chrysanthemum Menace: Judging Loyalty in a Time of War

With Us, or Against Us?
Projections of a Bureaucracy upon its Citizenry

The Loyalty Club

This has a double meaning--either you are a member of the club, meaning you're loyal, or you're a victim of a club, meaning your a target.

A few ideas:
1. "Labyrinth of Loyalty"

2. "Ministry of Love" (The 1984 reference might be a bit obscure, but on the positive side, you could pick up a few extra sales from inattentive Christians and heavy metal fans.)

Decklin Foster,
Have you considered Open Office (openoffice.org)? It's free, multi-platform, and open source and reads Word docs like a dream.

You put the title on the first page of your intro. "Reasonable Grounds"

Setting Sun

Interesting Parallels...from the Japanese Internment in WWII to today - Jose Pedilla (sp?) and the like.

Statements on government beaurocracy (always a guaranteed snooze) aside, the first title that comes to mind would be...

"How deep is your love? An examination of American loyalty"

Which kind of portrays both sides of the argument; not only that the government desires some kind of test or standard for loyalty, but that the tested subject (ie Japanese in WWII or American Muslims today, whomever) also desire to demonstrate that loyalty. They love their country too, don't they?

Snark aside, and upon more serious reflection leads to simply...

"I Pledge Allegience"

Internal Treason, Internal Reasons: Bureaucratic Assays of Japanese Loyalty in WWII

or, less seriously...

"Nippers in the Woodpile." :-)

I only read about half of the other comments, so sorry if this is a repeat...

The Board: How America Failed to Define Loyalty during WWII

Loyalty of a Different Color:
Race, Internment, Patriotism, and the Roots of the Red Scare

(I can see thinking of this as offensive, but I object to that objection. Certainly it's not offensive to suggest that internment was based on the color of another's skin?)

A Question of Loyalty: Japanese American Internment and Beyond

Sunrise Through Barbed Wire: The Destruction, by Fear, of "Liberty and Justice for All".

Or Sunrise Through Barbed Wire: When Fear Destroys Freedom.

Or just When Fear Destroys Freedom.

Land of the Imprisoned, Home of the Paranoid. (With "free" crossed out before "imprisoned," and "brave" crossed out before "paranoid.") (Or you could replace Imprisoned with the proper verb form of Internment, but I can't spell it.)

Prison Camps: Not Just for Nazis.

kyra_josephine_77@yahoo.com

"The Measure of Their Powers: Judging the Loyalty of Japanese Americans in WWII"

It's a quote from the Kentucky Resolution of 1799, protesting the Alien and Sedition Acts: "...since the discretion of those who administer the government, and not the constitution, would be the measure of their powers..."

Racial Inquisition: The History of the Japanese American Joint Board

I can see that your book blames the American Government for interning the Japanese. I'm a WWII vet and I remember the feelings of the people at that time. Our prospects for getting out of the war without becoming enslaved for a thousand years were far from certain. Now my children are not able to understand it.

I thought of the questionnaires and the controversial "loyalty" question ("Will you swear unqualified allegiance to the United States of America . . ." later changed to "Will you swear to abide by the laws of the United States . . ."). Toward that end, perhaps:

Question #28
or:
Will you Swear?

But I think RC already hit the best one:
A Question of Loyalty

Other possibles:
Decision of the Board
Leave Clearance

Was that legal?

"All Your Base Are Belong To Us":The JAJB in World War II

No Yellow in Red, White and Blue: The Japanese American Internment

The Loyalty Chimera: (with your choice of subtitles, based on your greater knowledge of the subject and its breadth)

or

The Chimera: Determining Loyalty during WWII (or somesuch)

or

Loyalty: The American Chimera

Internment: The research Malkin didn't do.

Sorry; couldn't help myself.

Subjective Loyalty: How Loyal You Are May Depend On Who Is Asking

or

Subjective Loyalty: The Varying Standard for Interrment

Scapegoat-American: How WWII America Imprisoned Its Own Citizens

"With Liberty and Justice for Some..."

Loyalty to Which America?

Unrequited Loyalty

(I'll leave the subtitles to the author

1- Eye of the Beholder

2- The Last Illusion

3- Oaths in Trouble

4- On Whose Side?

5- Stand and Deliver

how about simply use THE SECOND RED SCARE as your title and then add a subtitle or i think SCARLET ALLEGIANCE sounds cool.

I wanted to come up with a title using Shadows in my first email, but couldn't. Then I saw Jon Anderson's suggestion, and flipping that, I get

Shadows of Loyalty: (same subtitle as my Chimera one)

Condemned to Board-dom

Every Time You Incarcerate, God Kills a Kitten

An American Inquisition: The Perils of a Divided Nation

The Internment Test: Struggles and Errors in Assessing Citizen Loyalty During World War II

Judging or Assessing or Evaluating, but I like Judging

or "Japanese American Loyalty During…," I just thought it was better to emphasize that the testing was on US citizens

The Flag in the Mirror
When a Government fears the Citizen
How spies are not caught, and innocents are
imprisoned, a Janus effect of the failure to
co-operate between agencies.

great idea for a book. bureaucracies often run amok. whether it's group-think or knee-jerk policy makers, errors are part of the ongoing process. being a low level bureacrat myself, i am witness to this process. Franz Kafka is my saviour.

"Treason by Reason of Bureaucracy"

Behind the Screen. Subtitle or illustration required.

Japanese-American loyalty and the organizations that judged it

Trial By Ordeal: Judging the Loyalty of Japanese-Americans During World War II

(trial by ordeal - n : a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control)

Why Michelle Malkin Should Hope the U.S. Never Goes to War with the Philippines

:)

How about: Michelle Malkin is Full of Feces and Other Observations?

Seriously, nice work you did there.

Loyalty Board

The War Time Paranoia of the United States of America

QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS: The Failed Attempt to Measure the Loyalty of WWII Japanese Detainees

Alternate subtitle: The Measure of Loyalty in WWII

Or:
THEY DIDN'T EVEN LOOK IT UP IN A DICTIONARY

Use your own subtitle

"They're all the same"

Bureaucracy and Semantics: loyalty undefined during Japanese American internment

Black Dragons

Referring to the wholly imaginary secret society of Japanese Americans devoted to serving Tojo.

Tokyo Rose and the Black Dragons

It sounds like an adventure story, but after a moment you remember that both the arch-traitress Tokyo Rose and the sinister Black Dragon Society were fictions.

Michelle Malkin's suggestion for a title:

Better Off Interned

Yikes. I must have been past the lega limit when I posted mu suggestion above. Revised:

"Loyalty Oafs"

That's all on the cover. With the right art, it could work.

Or, oh, oh, if you draw explicit parallels with current events:

"Yellow Parallels" -- maybe too vauge, though.

Naaaah. I like "Loyalty Oafs" or "World War II Loyalty Oafs" or some variation. And I guess I'm also tired of the ubiquitous colon. ...

Yoy say QUOTE "as in the London transit bombings of July 2005, the attackers were revealed to be citizens. "

Well the guys who died held UK passports, they were dupes unaware of what was in their packages - most likely they thought they were drug couriers. Who directed their efforts, financed, organised, planned, procured the explosive ? ....Hmmmmm.

On the conventional policy in the book industry that, the fewer words prior to the colon, the better, I submit:

1. Imagined Loyalties or Manufacturing Loyalties
(depends on your focus and what gets said in the rest of the book)

As I read your intro, you're going to show how there is no stable referent -- no one thing -- to which loyalty refers. It has no essential meaning but depends entirely on the production, manufacture of disloyalty. If that's the brilliance you're going to focus on in the book, that might capture it.

2. OTOH, if you're not going to focus on that terribly much, then:

Manufacturing Disloyalty or The production of Disloyalty

3. Loyalty without Reason (Or Unreasonable Loyalities)

I pulled this from your first page wher eyou write, "that there were "reasonable grounds " to believe that they were "disloyal to the Government of the United States."

Similar frame as described in 1.

4. You use the word apparatus a great deal in the first chap.

The Apparatus of Loyalty

(Apparatus is an ugly word though and, being in the book production business, I'd say it's a weak choice. Why am I entering it? Becuase, if you're going for the academic audience, that doesn't matter nearly as much and can be read as "sexy" to an academic audience, though it wouldn't to a general audience.

5. Playing on apparatus, Roget's tells me to "see Means" when I look up apparatus for some less ugly sounding words.

The Means of Loyalty (or the Means of Disloyalty) (again, depending on your focus -- though, in this instance, the latter sounds sexier.)

This, to me, plays on the book title, The Wages of Whiteness, which has a similar theme: white's wages were justified by the production of non-whiteness and thus, whiteness itslef.

6. When I read "behind barbed wire" for some reason I thought of "Behind Blue Eyes."

So, Behind Barbed Whire: the production of loyalty and disloyalty during WW II

(Since I design book covers, that made me think that a great cover would be a photo of a forlorn barbed wire fence, with the camera looking into the forlorn eyes of an internee. Fading out on the back cover would be a hand holding pen signing in blood. I copyright that one right here and now!)

I peeked at your title. I like yours a lot, since it's funky. But, I never would have gotten the flavor of spy hunting from the intro, since I don't know much about the mechanisms our ruling appartus (heh) used during this time.

So, just as a throway:

Japs Under your Bed: The production of loyalty and disloyalty during World War II.

That is sooooooo not cool, though.

Good luck.

Bitch | Lab

Also, can't you just use something that riffs on Malkin's book? Hell, I'll settle for _Michelle Malkin_ is an asshat. I know, that is so rude. We should be above that sort of thing.

Bitch | Lab

Naked Persons Doing Sex Stuff: A Pop-up Book

OK, it might not accuratly depict what the book is about, but you are sure to grab some attention from off the shelf.

for the Kafkaesque--

The Loyalty Machine: Japanese-Americans and the Ministries of Internment, 1940-1945

(or whatever the applicable dates are)

LIMPING TO JUDGEMENT: The Bureaucratic Dooming of the Japanese American during World War II

SLANTED JUDGEMENT: Examining the Bureaucracy of Internment

INTERNING JAPANESE, WE REALLY THOUGHT SO: Institutionalizing Race Hatred On The American Homefront

DAYS THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY: Why We Locked Our Japanese-American Citizens Up And How We Kept Them There

This has been a fascinating read. Probably due to the interactive nature of your request.

I found your reference to today's media characters (Malkin, Coulter) interesting. You may wish you solidify the point with reference the hundreds of individuals who are still being held without trial (but perhaps that's not so relevant?) I DO wish you would include Limbaugh, FOX, et al. because (as you wrote) we are INDEED participating in an unprecidented time in history (at least in my experience) where one's loyalty and patriotism is being questioned on a daily basis and is narrowly defined DEPENDING UPON WHO YOU SPEAK TO AND WHAT YOU SUPPORT.

Here are the lines that struck me: "In truth, neither the War Relocation Authority nor the Provost Marshal General's Office ever managed to settle on a coherent definition of loyalty even for itself."

"Each agency's conclusions about Japanese American loyalty ultimately reflected much more about the agency ... than about the loyalties of Japanese Americans. "

I'm a Behavioral Scientist, so i suppose it's natural for my brain to frame your text in terms of my experience and knowledge. From my perspective, THIS IS THE ENTIRE POINT and the problem in attempting to measure human character. We're all biased based on our own biography and biology. You cannot truly MEASURE loyalty or disloyalty, because qualities of the human character cannot be truly measured in the finite ... merely observed and judged ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS. (did i go too far? i know, i'm long winded)

Anyway, I'm born & raised in the Pacific Northwest and found the subject close to home. Cant wait to read the book! Here's my 2 cents:

Created Equal?

Barbed Wire Cherry Blossoms

Subjective Loyalty: Character CANNOT be measured

The American Inquisition

Another American Inquisition?

Cherry Blossoms Behind Barbed Wire

Looking for the line between loyalty and disloyalty

Between Loyalty, Disloyalty & Barbed Wire

Looking for Disloyalty: War, Fear, Racism, and Cherry Blossoms

Bureaucratic Pathology & Group Think

Looking for Disloyalty: War, Fear, Colorism, and Cherry Blossoms

Measure My Loyalty?

Can Loyalty Be Measured?

With Liberty & Justice for All

I Pledge Allegiance: Americans Citizens Imprisoned or Americans Behind Barbed Wire

There are scillions of Cherry Blossom trees everywhere in Seattle and surrounding areas. There's an amazing Japanese Garden in the Arboretum. We always remember why ...

Eric,

P.S. Colorism is what got American citizens into a LOT of the shit we're in right now. You use the word 'Yellow' in your title and i'm not buying your book and i'll stop reading the blog (not that you care). It's a principle thing and you certianly sound smarter than that. From a marketing perspective, it's the wrong path, trust me on this. My aggresive tone is due to the fact that EVEN IN JEST (or in throwing out book titles) colorism/racism and all the slangs are hurtful. Please remind your readers ... to use compassion when typing snaky little slangs.

Thank you and Best Wishes,

ALWLTR

ALWLTR, wasn't race central to the suspicions?

So, a title, to follow up on a previous suggestion, like:

Red Tape, White America and True Blue Patriotism: The Bureaucratic Hunt for a Pale Yellow Peril

might be overboard on the color scheme but highlights the various racial fractures that led to the witch hunt in the first place (and uses the vernacular of the day).

I was just reading through the comments. Lots of complaints about Short, snappy before the colon titles and then huge, long ugly-ass subtitles.

The short snappy bit is b/c it works. You have to think of the mechanics of book cover design, both the front cover and the spine. In our time-limited world, people scan a bookshelf or Amazon results page and it's the cover that will catch their eye. The rest has to be compelling enough to make them fork out the cash, but you don't even get a potential reader to "thinking about it" stage w./o getting them to pay attention first.

To catch their eye, a boatload of words for the title will make cover design difficult -- particularly on the spine. It can be done, of course, and the more prominent, best-selling authors and celebs can get away with it.

The subtitle thing? Lots of reasons. Mostly, because academics are trained to always qualify everything, be specific, avoid sweeping generalizations (for which you'll be skewered by your critics), etc. (I know, I know: this is going to unleash a bunch of claims about how academics don't put this into practice.)

More practically, the longer subtitle gives you a flavor of the focus of the book. It tells me whether I should keep on reading. (Personally, I hate designing with these long titles. Clutters up the page, but I try to understand the need for them.)

So, you might be wondering why non-academic books don't always conform to that standard. That's b/c of the way an academic or highly educated audiences choose books v. the general book-buying public. Academics/intellectual audiences get a lot of information about books they're on topics of interest every day. Information overload of this kind drives the tendency to select a book (for consideration) by its cover.

General book buyers are also persuaded by covers, but they often go to a non-fiction section of a book store for very particular reasons -- to meet some particular need -- and often rely on word-of-mouth, television/radio spots on talk shows, and the like.

huh. probably just should have made my own blog entry on this.

I'm thinking you could do something with the phrase "on board", as in "being on board" with the country, nationalist agenda, etc. , i.e. being loyal. But also referring to the Board, the JAJB. But I haven't figured out an actual title...I'll have to meditate on this...

Judgment By Betrayal: The Japanese American Joint Board's Hunt for Disloyalty

or

Blinded by Fear: Finding Disloyalty at Home in World War II.

The other reason for boring academic subtitles is search engines: if I'm looking for recent work on, say, "Japanese Internment," I'm not going to find something titled "True Blue Loyalty" (or whatever) with my keywords.

I have another suggestion: Loyal Subjects, Subjective Loyalty (or Loyalties). With, of course, an appropriate subtitle ;)

I, personally, think that "Yellow" is okay in a title if it's in scare quotes (which is why I used 'em in some of my previous suggestions)--because it highlights the racism in the use of the term back in the day. Plus, honestly, I can't imagine an academic audience reading it in any other way.

"Clouds of Suspicion: the Attempt to Enforce Japanese-American Loyalty During World War II"

The jacket illustration might use some japanese print renditions of clouds.

There might be opportunities to incorporate the cloud metaphor into the text: I gather from my skim of the introduction that the bureaucrats involved were stumbling around in a fog.

Come All Ye Fully Vetted

or

Guilty By Association

Loyalty and Livliehood on Hold: An Examination of the Japanese Internment Camps

Japanese Internment Camps: A Question of Loyalty

Extreme McCarthyism: The Japanese American Internment Camps

Test of Allegiance: Measuring Japanese-American Loyalty During WWII

How I wrote a book examining the government's attempt to measure the loyalty of WWII Japanese detainees, but couldn't think of a title and threw the exercise open to readers of my blog and received such a deluge of responses that I couldn't choose, and neither could my publisher, so we decided to call it "The Book I wrote in 2005".

Bureaucratic Injustice: When the Government Tries (or Tried) to Define American Loyalty

Judged Disloyal: How the Government Failed Japanese-Americans During WWII

How about:

"Lipservice: What is Loyalty and Why Does the Government Really Care About It?"

I'd be interested in reading more about conflicting agendas of gov't agencies when it comes to using "loyalty" as means of ensuring domestic safety. I'm assuming that there is at least one common thread in every agenda - finding a concept with a "perception" among the public such that it can be used as a common denominator in a government program designed to make us all feel safe.

The Emperor's Old Clothes

How the East Was Judged

"It Depends on What Your Definition of Loyalty Is"

"The Problem With Determining Loyalty"

"Everyone Thought They Knew What Loyalty Was"

Not very academic titles, but you could add a subtitle...

Justice Disoriented

Doomed to Repeat It

"Cherry Blossoms Everywhere": The Untold Story of America's Ministry of Loyalty

The phrase in quotations, of course, comes from the song we all learned as children (Sakura).

"Cherry Blossoms Everywhere": Internment in America, A History

Ikebana in America: The Art of Arranging Loyalty

Shahei-gaki and Barbed Wire:

Republic For Which It Stands: One Nation Divisible

Nation Divisible

"She loves me, She Loves Me Not": Loyalty Courts in WWII America

Ikebana, American Style:

Machinations of Loyalty, Policies of Fear

"Land Where My Father Died":

Barbed Wire Policies in the Land of the Free

Barbed Wire Laws in the Land of the Free

Barbed Wire Policies: The Mechanics of Loyalty

Casting the First Stone

Judging Loyalty: Deus Ex Machina in the Land of the Free

"Today We have Naming of Parts"

"Japonica Glistens Like Coral In All Of The Neighboring Gardens And Today We Have Naming of Parts"

Kyoufuseiji Japonica

No title, alas, but the interjection of a quote by the late "Pat" Morita, who was sickly as a child, and dragged from a hospital to an internment camp:

"One day I was a cripple, the next I was Public Enemy #1."

Do with it what you will.

Yellow Scare: How America Judged Loyalty of its Citizens During the Japanese-American Internment, 1943-1945, Lessons for Post 9/11

"Without Evidence or Inquiry"

---it's from Justice Black's dissent in Korematsu v. United States

The Loyalty Trap: How the US Government Imprisoned Americans During WWII

No title suggestion, but a story that is at least tangentially related.

Utah hosted one of the internment camps (Topaz), and had before and still has today a sizable Japanese population. When I staffed for Sen. Orrin Hatch, the proposal to seriously investigate the internments and, perhaps, pay reparations, was put to Congress. For political reasons Hatch had to sign on to cosponsor the bill, but he quickly converted to the view that the internments were a great injustice. As his press guy, I was responsible for getting the issue into print.

First we did a simple press release, with a title like "Hatch sponsors Japanese internment probe." The Provo, Utah, Daily Herald headlined it, "Hatch sponsors Japanese burial probe." They'd missed the difference between "internment," and "interment," or so I thought.

I gave a friendly call to the copy desk at the paper, and we laughed at the error. There was no correction run, however.

At each step of the process, then, as the bill had hearings, came out of committee, was passed by the Senate, approved by the House, and signed into law, the paper called it the "Japanese burial probe." I never could figure out why, and I quit making friendly calls to the copy desk. Our revenge was that the bill became law, and President Reagan delivered a formal apology and signed the bill. Small reparations were paid.

I wish your book wide readership.

hmmm
Presumed Disloyal: The Chimera of Bureaucratic Judgement of Japanese Americans

Have to say I really like "Loyal Inquisition" as well.

You don't need a title, you need and editor.

Lets see:

During the ‘Second Red Scare’ the government created an apparatus to judge the loyalty of American citizens. At the height of the Cold War, by executive order, President Truman subjected all executive branch employees to an FBI investigation in order to determine whether there were "reasonable grounds" to believe that they were "disloyal to the Government of the United States." This program covered over two million federal jobs and created to "loyalty boards" in all federal agencies. It was the most expansive American loyalty assessment program, but it was not the first, or the most burdensome, or the most suspicious of the loyalty of American citizens.

Five to ten years before the Red Scare, during World War II, the US government was judging the loyalty of all American citizens with Japanese ancestry.

The number of investigations in the Red Scare was huge, four million by the end of 1952, but the number of adverse findings was tiny. In contrast the evaluation of Japanese Americans produced adverse findings in over 12,000 of the 40,000 cases reviewed. More than one out of every four Americans who was investigated was ruled Anti-American. The consequences for the Japanese Americans were severe. During the Red Scare a finding of disloyalty lead to black listing and lost job opportunities, but for the Japanese in WWII it meant indefinite incarceration.

We will examine the apparatus that the wartime government created for judging the loyalty of American citizens, of Japanese ancestry. Previous literature has focused on the demoralizing effects of the insultingly worded loyalty questionnaire, that in 1943 all Japanies Americans were required to compleet while interned in the American concentration camps or "relocation centers".

We will follow those completed questionnaires into the bowels of the wartime bureaucracy, where government officials used them to pass judgment on the loyalty of the incarcerated Americans citizens.

"In Their Secret Hearts"

This phrase comes from a Mark Twain quote I came across online:

"Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions."

Too many good ideas, but might as well throw one or two in there:

(the first one is based on a quote from Kiyoshi Okamato):

Covenant of Faith:

or

Politics of Fear:

It's hard to come up with a good subtitle because of the unwieldiness of "Japanese-American." *shakes fist* Damn you political correctness and the importance taking into account others' feelings!

Here's an even more unwieldy subtitle:

FDR Unhinged: How WWII-era paranoia would prove Michelle Malkin right 60 years ahead of time, just not in the way she thinks

How about these:

Dress Rehearsal for the Blacklist: WWII Loyalty Investigations of Japanese-Americans

Yellow Peril, Black List: (Same subheading)

McCarthy's Forebears: (Same subheading)

One more laugh, I hope, in homage to a silly little film and a not-so-awful read.

The Occidental Terrorist: blah blah subtitle about loyalty and all that.