Concentration camps on the home front
Subtitle: Japanese Americans in the house of Jim Crow
By: John Howard.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780226354767
Subjects: Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Arkansas -- Jerome; World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Arkansas -- Rohwer; Japanese Americans -- Arkansas -- Biography; Japanese Americans -- Arkansas -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Community life -- Arkansas -- History -- 20th century; Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- Arkansas -- History -- 20th century; Arkansas -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century; Southern States -- Race relations -- Case studies
Genres: Biography.; Case studies.
Description: Without trial and without due process, the US government locked up nearly all those citizens and longtime residents who were of Japanese descent during World War II. Almost 20,000 of them were shipped to two concentration camps in the segregated South - locations that put them right at the heart of a much older system of racist oppression.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.