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

Author: John Howard
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: John Howard
ISBN: 9780226354767 0226354768
OCLC Number: 184906156
Description: 344 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: John Howard.
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