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Author:

Howard, John, 1962-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

344 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.)
Jerome Relocation Center (Ark.)
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Jerome.--Jerome.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Rohwer.--Rohwer.
Japanese Americans--Arkansas--Biography.
Japanese Americans--Arkansas--Social conditions--20th century.
Community life--Arkansas--History--20th century.
Imprisonment--History--Arkansas--History--20th century.
Arkansas--History--History--20th century.
Southern States--Race relations--Case studies.

Notes:

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

Contents:

Introduction: Unnatural but not Un-American ; Not American, not again ; Human differences, human rights -- 1. Expansion and restriction: Christian Empire ; Self-sufficiency, Sandalwood, and sugar ; White citizenship, racial hierarchy -- 2. Subversion: Perverse sexuality ; House Un-American Activities ; Segregation versus extermination -- 3. Concentration and cooperation: Collective living ; Cooperative enterprises ; Competitive sports ; Participatory democracy -- 4. Camp life: Gendered spaces ; Caucasian environments ; Unusual places -- 5. Race, war, dances: Complicating the color line ; Courting within the color lines ; Authorizing gender roles -- 6. Americanization and Christianization: Schooling in the nation ; Drawing out the nation ; Safeguarding Buddhism ; Worshipping of the nation -- 7. Strikes and resistance ; Disputes over pay and conditions ; The woodcutters strike and the death of Seizo Imada ; The motor repair strike ; The general strike and the death of Haruji Ego -- 8. Segregation, expatriation, annihilation ; Neither a trial nor inquisition ; Tule Lake ; Hiroshima -- 9. Resettlement and dispersal ; Normal American communities ; The suicide of Julia Dakuzaku ; Plantation versus cooperative colony -- 10. Occupation and statehood: Adopting the American way ; Queering the Empire ; Rock 'n' roll and redemption -- Epilogue: Democracy is for the unafraid ; Cliches of American happiness.

ISBN:

0226354768 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226354767

OCLC:

(OCoLC)184906156

LCCN:

2007050680

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)