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Imprisoned in Paradise : Japanese Internee Road Workers at the World War II Kooskia Internment ...
ISBN: 9780893015503 | 0893015504
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
Pub. Date: 6/15/2010
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The Kooskia Internment Camp, a unique, virtually forgotten, World War II detention and road building facility, was located on wild and scenic Lochsa River in north central Idaho. Between mid-1943 and mid-1945 the Kooskia camp held an all-male contingent of some 265 so-called "enemy aliens" of Japanese ancestry.Despite having committed no crimes, but suspected of potential sabotage, these noncitizen U.S. residents of Japanese descent had been interned elsewhere in the U.S. following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. They volunteeredd for transfer ... MORE
| List of Illustrations | p. xi |
| Foreword | p. xv |
| Preface | p. xix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxix |
| Anti-Japanese Attitudes: Foreshadowing Japanese American Internment and Incarceration | p. 1 |
| Anticipating Internee Arrival: Establishing the Kooskia Internment Camp | p. 21 |
| No Barbed Wire: Living Conditions at the Kooskia Internment Camp | p. 39 |
| "A Real He-Man's Job": Work Assignment... MORE | p. 59 |
| A Powerful Petition: Internees Protest Deteriorating Conditions at the Kooskia Camp | p. 81 |
| Finding Freedom in Leisure: Recreation at the Kooskia Internment Camp | p. 97 |
| Candid and Outspoken: Internee and Employee Perspectives on the Kooskia Internment Camp | p. 125 |
| Surviving External Scrutiny: Inspections, Rehearings, and Releases | p. 147 |
| Friends or Enemies?: Internees Interact with the "Home Front" | p. 163 |
| Back to Barbed Wire: Closure of the Kooskia Internment Camp | p. 179 |
| List of All Men at the Kooskia Internment Camp | p. 201 |
| List of Abbreviations | p. 215 |
| Endnotes | p. 223 |
| References Cited | p. 281 |
| Index | p. 295 |
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