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Title:
Imprisoned in Paradise : Japanese internee road workers at the World War II Kooskia Internment Camp
Alternate title:
Japanese internee road workers at the World War II Kooskia Internment Camp
Series Number:
no. 3.
Contents:
Anti-Japanese attitudes : foreshadowing Japanese American internment and incarceration -- Anticipating internee arrival : establishing the Kooskia Internment Camp -- No barbed wire : living conditions at the Kooskia Internment Camp -- "A real he-man's job" : work assignments and working conditions -- A powerful petition : internees protest deteriorating conditions at the Kooskia Camp -- Finding freedom in leisure : recreation at the Kooskia Internment Camp -- Candid and outspoken : internee and employee perspectives on the Kooskia Internment Camp -- Surviving external scrutiny : inspections, rehearings, and releases -- Friends or enemies? : internees interact with the "home front" -- Back to barbed wire : closure of the Kooskia Internment Camp -- List of all men at the Kooskia Internment Camp.
Physical Description:
xxxiv, 323 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher:
Asian American Comparative Collection, University of Idaho,
Publication Date:
2010
ISBN:
9780893015503
Publication Information:
Moscow, Idaho : Asian American Comparative Collection, University of Idaho, 2010.
Call Number:
940.53 WEGARS
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