Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow

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Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow

John Howard

Language: English

Pages: 356

ISBN: 0226354768

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


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.

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That the original Trace was the “road over which Andrew Jackson marched to New Orleans [and] won the great victory of the War of 1812.” Now, on the eve of U.S. entry into World War II, Rankin asserted that national “highways in Europe and the inland waterways have had more effect on this war than almost any other two elements you can mention.” For the motorized movement of equipment and for troop transport, Germany in particular had benefited from its integrated system of roadways and waterways,.

Went further and issued a minority report recommending that it be deferred indefinitely. Thus in the 1930s, Rankin and southern Democrats “assumed the leadership of attempts to frustrate Hawaii’s statehood aspirations. Various representatives of the conservative, segregated, race-conscious Southern states willingly 60 Chapter Two performed this function for the next twenty-five years.” Their fears of a larger nonwhite populace excited fears of un-American changes in social and economic.

Just beyond the barbed wire. The land would be farmed not by individual families in competition with each other, but as a collective serving the needs of the entire community. For those who worked within the town, walks of over a mile would be rare—unless they were unfortunate enough to reside at one corner of the compound and work at the other. As Haruko Hurt remembers of the winter, “I had not experienced such a cold climate. . . . We lived on the one end of the camp. My sister and I got a.

Attained distinctions in bowling, boxing, and swimming, at Shelby and beyond. The barefoot Hawaiian golfer, Private Ted Murata, won the 72-hole Mississippi Junior Championship at three under par and was invited to play in numerous exhibition matches throughout the South. Similarly, both Rohwer and Jerome high school teams played against outside white opponents, occasioning reflection on the myth of racial superiority and the reality of racial divides. Victories could be particularly sweet in such.

Incarceration, they were well below national averages. Only during the last full year of imprisonment did they rise to meet them. Thus, Japanese American coupling and child-raising fell into line with broader American patterns. Defying cultural taboos against interracial marriage, some detainees presented a distinctive set of challenges to the military and the WRA administration. During expulsion and incarceration, what would happen to the non–Japanese American spouses of Japanese American.

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