American Concentration Camps May 1942

Author : Stephanie D. Hinnershitz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812299953

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Japanese American Incarceration by Stephanie D. Hinnershitz Pdf

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 labor and exploitation. Following Franklin Roosevelt's 1942 Executive Order 9066, which called for the exclusion of potentially dangerous groups from military zones along the West Coast, the federal government placed Japanese Americans in makeshift prisons throughout the country. In addition to working on day-to-day operations of the camps, Japanese Americans were coerced into harvesting crops, digging irrigation ditches, paving roads, and building barracks for little to no compensation and often at the behest of privately run businesses—all in the name of national security. How did the U.S. government use incarceration to address labor demands during World War II, and how did imprisoned Japanese Americans respond to the stripping of not only their civil rights, but their labor rights as well? Using a variety of archives and collected oral histories, Japanese American Incarceration uncovers the startling answers to these questions. Stephanie Hinnershitz's timely study connects the government's exploitation of imprisoned Japanese Americans to the history of prison labor in the United States.

Author : United States. Army. Western Defense Command and Fourth Army
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Asian Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015000676042

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Final Report, Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast, 1942 by United States. Army. Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Pdf

Author : Roger Daniels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Japanese Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015024881826

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American Concentration Camps: June, 1942-May, 1944, raising Japanese American troops by Roger Daniels Pdf

Author : Roger Daniels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Japanese Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012042938

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American Concentration Camps: May, 1942 by Roger Daniels Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0295959894

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Citizen 13660 by Anonim Pdf

Mine Okubo was one of 110,000 people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of them American citizens -- who were rounded up into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, her memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, was first published in 1946, then reissued by University of Washington Press in 1983 with a new Preface by the author. With 197 pen-and-ink illustrations, and poignantly written text, the book has been a perennial bestseller, and is used in college and university courses across the country. "[Mine Okubo] took her months of life in the concentration camp and made it the material for this amusing, heart-breaking book. . . . The moral is never expressed, but the wry pictures and the scanty words make the reader laugh -- and if he is an American too -- blush." -- Pearl Buck Read more about Mine Okubo in the 2008 UW Press book, Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road, edited by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef. http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/ROBMIN.html

Author : United States. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Aleuts
ISBN : PURD:32754061309575

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Personal Justice Denied: Report by United States. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians Pdf

Part II (p.315-359) concerns the removal of Aleuts to camps in southeastern Alaska and their subsequent resettlement at war's end.

Author : Douglas W. Nelson
Publisher : Department of History University of Wisconsin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010468432

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Heart Mountain by Douglas W. Nelson Pdf

Author : Gary Y. Okihiro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216106104

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Encyclopedia of Japanese American Internment by Gary Y. Okihiro Pdf

This book addresses the forced removal and confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II—a topic significant to all Americans, regardless of race or color. The internment of Japanese Americans was a violation of the Constitution and its guarantee of equal protection under the law—yet it was authorized by a presidential order, given substance by an act of Congress, and affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Japanese internment is a topic that we as Americans cannot afford to forget or be ignorant of. This work spotlights an important subject that is often only described in a cursory fashion in general textbooks. It provides a comprehensive, accessible treatment of the events of Japanese American internment that includes topical, event, and biographical entries; a chronology and comprehensive bibliography; and primary documents that help bring the event to life for readers and promote inquiry and critical thinking.

Author : Joy Hakim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780199989102

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A History of US: War, Peace, and All That Jazz by Joy Hakim Pdf

Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. From woman's suffrage to Babe Ruth's home runs, from Louis Armstrong's jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four presidential terms, from the finale of one world war to the dramatic close of the second, War, Peace, and All That Jazz presents the story of some of the most exciting years in U.S. history. With the end of World War I, many Americans decided to live it up, going to movies, driving cars, and cheering baseball games a plenty. But alongside this post WWI spree was high unemployment, hard times for farmers, ever present racism, and, finally, the Depression, the worst economic disaster in U.S. history, flip flopping the nation from prosperity to scarcity. Along came one of our country's greatest leaders, F.D.R., who promised a New Deal, gave Americans hope, and then saw them through the horrors and victories of World War II. These three decades full of optimism and despair, progress and Depression, and, of course, War, Peace, and All That Jazz forever changed the United States. About the Series: Master storyteller Joy Hakim has excited millions of young minds with the great drama of American history in her award-winning series A History of US. Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text, A History of US weaves together exciting stories that bring American history to life. Hailed by reviewers, historians, educators, and parents for its exciting, thought-provoking narrative, the books have been recognized as a break-through tool in teaching history and critical reading skills to young people. In ten books that span from Prehistory to the 21st century, young people will never think of American history as boring again.

Author : Robert Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1637840187

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Amache by Robert Harvey Pdf

Seized by the fear that they might become victims of fifth-column activities in the first stages of World War II, Americans began to see neighbors of different ethnic backgrounds as enemies. Within months of the attack on Pearl Harbor, citizens sought ways to rid themselves of potential threats in the easiest and most convenient method possible--concentration camps. In this second edition of Amache: The Story of Japanese Internment in Colorado During World War II, Robert Harvey outlines one of the darkest chapters in Colorado's history. Amache is a comprehensive must-read that will forever preserve the voices and stories of those who endured this dark period of our nation's past.--Publisher.

Author : Roger Daniels
Publisher : Malabar, Fla. : Krieger Publishing Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032924774

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Concentration Camps, North America by Roger Daniels Pdf

In the early months of 1942, the United States government assembled and shipped off to concentration camps 112,000 men, women, and children -- the entire Japanese-American population of the three Pacific Coast states of California, Oregon, and an Washington. This book is an attempt to tell their story. It is the story of a national calamity commonly referred to as 'our worst wartime mistake.' This tendency to write off the evacuation as a 'mistake' is to obscure its it true significance. The legal atrocity which was committed against the Japanese-Americans was the logical outgrowth of over three centuries of American experience which taught Americans to regard the United States as a white man's country, in which nonwhites 'had no rights which the white man was bound to respect' (Dred Scott decision). Although it affected only a tiny segment of our population, it reflected one of the central themes of American history -- the theme of white supremacy.

Author : Eric L. Muller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0226548236

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Free to Die for Their Country by Eric L. Muller Pdf

One of the Washington Post's Top Nonfiction Titles of 2001 In the spring of 1942, the federal government forced West Coast Japanese Americans into detainment camps on suspicion of disloyalty. Two years later, the government demanded even more, drafting them into the same military that had been guarding them as subversives. Most of these Americans complied, but Free to Die for Their Country is the first book to tell the powerful story of those who refused. Based on years of research and personal interviews, Eric L. Muller re-creates the emotions and events that followed the arrival of those draft notices, revealing a dark and complex chapter of America's history.

Author : Joy Hakim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0195153359

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War, Peace, and All that Jazz by Joy Hakim Pdf

Presents the history of America from the earliest times of the Native Americans to the Clinton administration.

Author : George Takei,Justin Eisinger,Steven Scott
Publisher : Top Shelf Productions
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781684068821

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They Called Us Enemy - Expanded Edition by George Takei,Justin Eisinger,Steven Scott Pdf

The New York Times bestselling graphic memoir from actor/author/activist George Takei returns in a deluxe edition with 16 pages of bonus material! Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his magnetic performances, sharp wit, and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new frontiers in STAR TREK, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's -- and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers," hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard. THEY CALLED US ENEMY is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the terrors and small joys of childhood in the shadow of legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's tested faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future. What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? George Takei joins cowriters Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott and artist Harmony Becker for the journey of a lifetime.

Author : John Howard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226354774

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Concentration Camps on the Home Front by John Howard Pdf

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 inmates’ experiences and a searing examination of American imperialism and racist hysteria. While the basic facts of Japanese-American incarceration are well known, John Howard’s extensive research gives voice to those whose stories have been forgotten or ignored. He highlights the roles of women, first-generation immigrants, and those who forcefully resisted their incarceration by speaking out against dangerous working conditions and white racism. In addition to this overlooked history of dissent, Howard also exposes the government’s aggressive campaign to Americanize the inmates and even convert them to Christianity. After the war ended, this movement culminated in the dispersal of the prisoners across the nation in a calculated effort to break up ethnic enclaves. Howard’s re-creation of life in the camps is powerful, provocative, and disturbing. Concentration Camps on the Home Front rewrites a notorious chapter in American history—a shameful story that nonetheless speaks to the strength of human resilience in the face of even the most grievous injustices.