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1043406
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b797776
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Howard, John,1962-
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| Title & Author
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Concentration camps on the home front : : Japanese Americans in the house of Jim Crow /\ John Howard.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2008.
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1 online resource (344 pages) :: illustrations, map
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| ISBN
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0226354776
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: 1282069934
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: 6612069937
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: 9780226354774
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: 9781282069930
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: 9786612069932
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0226354768
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9780226354767
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-322) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Community life-- Arkansas-- History-- 20th century.
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Imprisonment-- Social aspects-- Arkansas-- History-- 20th century.
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Japanese Americans-- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
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Japanese Americans-- Arkansas, Biography.
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Japanese Americans-- Arkansas-- Social conditions-- 20th century.
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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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Community life.
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Concentration camps.
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HISTORY-- Military-- World War II.
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Imprisonment-- Social aspects.
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Japanese Americans-- Social conditions.
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Japanese Americans.
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Race relations.
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Arkansas, Race relations, History, 20th century.
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Southern States, Race relations, Case studies.
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Arkansas, Jerome.
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Arkansas, Rohwer.
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Arkansas.
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Southern States.
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| Dewey Classification
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940.53/17767
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| LC Classification
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D769.8.A6H69 2008eb
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