Imprisoned in Paradise
Subtitle: Japanese internee road workers at the World War II Kooskia Internment Camp
By: Priscilla Wegars ; with a foreword by Michiko Midge Ayukawa
Contributors: Ayukawa, Michiko Midge, 1930-; University of Idaho. Asian American Comparative Collection
Series: Asian American Comparative Collection Research Report -- no. 3; Asian American Comparative Collection research report -- no. 3.
Publisher: Asian American Comparative Collection, University of Idaho
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Moscow, Idaho
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780893015503
Subjects: Concentration camps; World War, 1939-1945; Japanese Americans; History; Kooskia Internment Camp (Idaho); Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Design and construction
Other titles: Japanese internee road workers at the World War II Kooskia Internment Camp
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-294) and index.
Table of contents: title: Anti-Japanese attitudes : foreshadowing Japanese American internment and incarceration; title: Anticipating internee arrival : establishing the Kooskia Internment Camp; title: No barbed wire : living conditions at the Kooskia Internment Camp; title: "A real he-man's job" : work assignments and working conditions; title: A powerful petition : internees protest deteriorating conditions at the Kooskia Camp; title: Finding freedom in leisure : recreation at the Kooskia Internment Camp; title: Candid and outspoken : internee and employee perspectives on the Kooskia Internment Camp; title: Surviving external scrutiny : inspections, rehearings, and releases; title: Friends or enemies? : internees interact with the "home front"; title: Back to barbed wire : closure of the Kooskia Internment Camp; title: List of all men at the Kooskia Internment Camp.