| Description |
1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations, map |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-322) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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-opening account of the inm. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Forced removal and internment of Japanese Americans (1942-1945) |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
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Japanese Americans. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Arkansas -- Jerome.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Arkansas -- Rohwer.
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Japanese Americans -- Arkansas -- Biography.
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Arkansas. |
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Biographies.
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| Subject |
Japanese Americans -- Arkansas -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Community life -- Arkansas -- History -- 20th century.
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Community life. |
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History. |
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Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- Arkansas -- History -- 20th century.
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Imprisonment -- Social aspects. |
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Imprisonment. |
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Arkansas -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Race relations. |
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Southern States -- Race relations -- Case studies.
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Southern States. |
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Case studies.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Howard, John, 1962- Concentration camps on the home front. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008 9780226354767 0226354768 (DLC) 2007050680 (OCoLC)184906156 |
| ISBN |
9780226354774 (electronic book) |
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0226354776 (electronic book) |
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0226354768 (cloth) |
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9780226354767 (cloth) |
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