Japanese American Incarceration

The Camps and Coerced Labor during World War II

Stephanie D. Hinnershitz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2021
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-0-8122-5336-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2021
Reihe/Serie	Politics and Culture in Modern America
Zusatzinfo	15 illus.
Verlagsort	Pennsylvania
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8122-5336-1 / 0812253361
ISBN-13	978-0-8122-5336-8 / 9780812253368
Zustand	Neuware