Stephanie D Hinnershitz

Japanese American Incarceration

The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II

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Produktbeschreibung

"Japanese American Incarceration argues that the incarceration of Japanese Americans created a massive system of prison labor that blurred the lines between free and forced work during World War II"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780812253368
• ISBN-10: 0812253361
• Artikelnr.: 61115323

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Hinnershitz is a historian with the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy at the National WWII Museum and author of two previous books, A Different Shade of Justice: Asian Americans and Civil Rights in the South and Race, Religion, and Civil Rights: Asian Students on the West Coast, 1900-1968.

Inhaltsangabe

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