Concentration camps on the home front : Japanese Americans in the house of Jim Crow /
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 shipp...
| Основен автор: | Howard, John, 1962- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=272583 |
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Concentration camps on the home front. |
| Резюме: |
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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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-322) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226354774 0226354776 0226354768 9780226354767 |