Japanese American Incarceration : : The Camps and Coerced Labor during World War II / / Stephanie D. Hinnershitz.
Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II as a history of prison...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Culture in Modern America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 15 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Economics of Incarceration and the Blueprint for Japanese American Labor
- Chapter 2. “What Good Was My Contract?”: From Free to Convict Laborers
- Chapter 3. “Worse Than Prisoners”: Labor Resistance in the Detention Centers and Prison Camps
- Chapter 4. A Prison by Any Other Name: Labor and the Poston “Colony”
- Chapter 5. Redemptive Labor: Japanese American Resettlement
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments