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Concentration camps on the home front : Japanese Americans in the house of Jim Crow / John Howard.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howard, John, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
- Japanese Americans.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Arkansas--Jerome.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Arkansas--Rohwer.
- Japanese Americans--Arkansas--Biography.
- Japanese Americans--Arkansas--Social conditions--20th century.
- Community life--Arkansas--History--20th century.
- Community life.
- Imprisonment--Social aspects--Arkansas--History--20th century.
- Imprisonment.
- Arkansas--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Arkansas.
- Southern States--Race relations--Case studies.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (357 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Without trial and without due process, the United States government locked up nearly all of those citizens and longtime residents who were of Japanese descent during World War II. Ten concentration camps were set up across the country to confine over 120,000 inmates. Almost 20,000 of them were shipped to the only two camps in the segregated South-Jerome and Rohwer in Arkansas-locations that put them right in the heart of a much older, long-festering system of racist oppression. The first history of these Arkansas camps, Concentration Camps on the Home Front is an eye-open
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Expansion and Restriction
- 2. Subversion
- 3. Concentration and Cooperation
- 4. Camp Life
- 5. Race, War, Dances
- 6. Americanization and Christianization
- 7. Strikes and Resistance
- 8. Segregation, Expatriation, Annihilation
- 9. Resettlement and Dispersal
- 10. Occupation and Statehood
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-322) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612069932
- 9781282069930
- 1282069934
- 9780226354774
- 0226354776
- OCLC:
- 435816414
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