Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain : networks, power, and everyday life / Saara Kekki.

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"On August 8, 1942, 302 people arrived by train at Vocation, Wyoming, to become the first Japanese American residents of what the U.S. government called the Relocation Center at Heart Mountain. In the following weeks and months, they would be joined by some 10,000 of the more than 120,000 people of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kekki, Saara, 1982- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Wyoming.
Japanese Americans > Wyoming > Social conditions > 20th century.
Japanese Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
United States > Race relations > History.
HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Internment camps.
Japanese Americans > Social conditions.
Race relations.
United States.
Wyoming.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xvii, 224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Network Analysis and the Study of Japanese American History
  • From Immigration to Incarceration: The Japanese in the United States, 1890-1942
  • Heart Mountain Community and Modeling the Networks
  • Those Who Govern: Political Power
  • Sense of Belonging
  • Individuals of Power and Power Families
  • Women of Heart Mountain
  • Disobedience behind Barbed Wire: Passive and Active Resistance
  • Onward: Routes to Freedom
  • Epilogue: Networks of Power and the Power of Networks.