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Camp Harmony

Japanese American Internment and the Puyallup Assembly Center

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

AvLouis Fiset

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This book is the first full portrait of a single assembly center--located at the Western Washington fairgrounds at Puyallup, outside Seattle--that held Japanese Americans for four months prior to their transfer to a relocation center during World War II. Gathering archival evidence and eyewitness accounts, Louis Fiset reconstructs the events leading up to the incarceration as they unfolded on a local level: arrests of Issei leaders, Nikkei response to the war dynamics, debates within the white community, and the forced evacuation of the Nikkei community from Bainbridge Island. The book explores the daily lives of the more than seven thousand inmates at "Camp Harmony," detailing how they worked, played, ate, and occasionally fought with each other and with their captors. Fiset also examines the inmates' community life, health care, and religious activities. He includes details on how army surveyors selected the center's site, oversaw its construction, and managed the transfer of inmates to the more permanent Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-10-19
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAsian American Experience
Antal sidor232
FörlagUniversity of Illinois Press
ISBN9780252034916

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List of Illustrations ixList of Tables xiForeword by Roger Daniels xiiiAcknowledgments xvIntroduction 11. Prewar Japantown 92. War Comes to Japantown 243. Preparing for Exile 414. Puyallup Assembly Center 605. Exile 806. Settling In 987. Early Departures and a New Community 1138. Dissension 1419. Leaving Camp Harmony 156Epilogue 167Notes 169Bibliography 195Index 205