Japanese American incarceration : the camps and coerced labor during World War II / Stephanie Hinnershitz.

"Japanese American Incarceration argues that the incarceration of Japanese Americans created a massive system of prison labor that blurred the lines between free and forced work during World War II"--

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Politics and culture in modern America.
Main Author: Hinnershitz, Stephanie, 1984- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Series:Politics and culture in modern America.
Subjects:
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > United States.
Forced labor > United States > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Conscript labor > United States.
Forced labor.
Japanese Americans.
United States.
1900-1999
History.
Internment camps.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:309 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The economics of incarceration and the blueprint for Japanese American labor
  • "What good was my contract?" : from free to convict laborers
  • "Worse thatn prisoners" : labor resistance in the detention centers and prison camps
  • A prison by any other name : labor and the Poston "Colony"
  • Redemptive labor : Japanese American resettlement.