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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454436703321

Autore

Howard John <1962->

Titolo

Concentration camps on the home front [[electronic resource] ] : Japanese Americans in the house of Jim Crow / / John Howard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008

ISBN

1-282-06993-4

9786612069932

0-226-35477-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/17767

Soggetti

Japanese Americans - Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945

World War, 1939-1945 - Concentration camps - Arkansas - Jerome

World War, 1939-1945 - Concentration camps - Arkansas - Rohwer

Japanese Americans - Arkansas

Japanese Americans - Arkansas - Social conditions - 20th century

Community life - Arkansas - History - 20th century

Imprisonment - Social aspects - Arkansas - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Arkansas Race relations History 20th century

Southern States Race relations Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-322) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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