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

• Autore: Howard John <1962->
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.53/17767
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Arkansas Race relations History 20th century; Southern States Race relations Case studies
• Soggetto non controllato: racism, race, japanese americans, american studies, history, historical, government responses, second world war, concentration camps, inmates, jerome, rohwer, arkansas, racist oppression, jim crow, 20th century, imperialism, hysteria, gender, first generation immigrants, immigration, incarceration, working conditions, religion, conversion, injustice, relocation, evacuation, imprisonment, human rights, citizenship, nation state
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Concentration camps on the home front
• ISBN: 1-282-06993-4; 9786612069932; 0-226-35477-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813294903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II