Camp Harmony : Seattle's Japanese Americans and the Puyallup Assembly Center / Louis Fiset.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fiset, Louis.

Series:

Asian American experience

The Asian American experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.

Japanese Americans.

Puyallup Assembly Center (Puyallup, Wash.).

Japanese Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle--History--20th century.

World War, 1939-1945--Washington (State)--Seattle.

World War, 1939-1945.

History.

Seattle (Wash.)--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.

Seattle (Wash.).

Seattle (Wash.)--History--20th century.

Washington (State)--Seattle.

Physical Description:

xvi, 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]

Summary:

This book is the first full portrait of a single assembly center-located at the Western Washington fairgrounds at Puyallup, outside Seattle- the held Japanese Americans for four months Prior to their transfer to a relocation centre during World War II. Gathering archival evidence and eyewitness accounts, Louis Fiset reconstructs the events leading up to the incarceration as they unfolded on a local level. arrests of Issei leaders, Nikkei responses to the war dynamics, debates within the white community, and the forced evacuation of the Nikkei community from Bainbridge Island. The book explore the daily lives of the more than seven thousand inmates at "Camp Harmony" detailing how they worked, played, ate, and occasionally fought with each other and with their captors. Fiset also examines the inmates' community life, health care, and religious activities. He includes details on how army surveyors selected the center's site, oversaw its construction, and managed the transfer of inmates to the more permanent Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho.

Louis Fiset is the author or Imprisoned Apart: The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple and Coeditor of Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century. He has appointments in the University of Washington's dental and medical schools, where he helps train Alaska Natives to provide dental services in Bush Alaska.

Contents:

Prewar Japantown

War comes to Japantown

Preparing for exile

Puyallup Assembly Center

Exile

Settling in

Early departures and a new community

Dissension

Leaving Camp Harmony.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780252034916

0252034910

9780252076725

0252076729

OCLC:

317462394