Concentration Camps on the Home Front

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Introduction

Unnatural but Not Un-American

Not American, Not Again

Human Differences, Human Rights

1. Expansion and Restriction

Christian Empire

Self-Sufficiency, Sandalwood, and Sugar

White Citizenship, Racial Hierarchy

2. Subversion

Perverse Sexuality

House Un-American Activities

Segregation versus Extermination

3. Concentration and Cooperation

Collective Living

Cooperative Enterprises

Competitive Sports

Participatory Democracy

4. Camp Life

Gendered Spaces

Caucasian Environments

Unusual Places

5. Race, War, Dances

Complicating the Color Line

Courting within the Color Lines

Authorizing Gender Roles

6. Americanization and Christianization

Schooling in the Nation

Drawing Out the Nation

Safeguarding Buddhism

Worshipping of the Nation

7. Strikes and Resistance

Disputes over Pay and Conditions

The Woodcutters Strike and the Death of Seizo Imada

The Motor Repair Strike

The General Strike and the Death of Haruji Ego

8. Segregation, Expatriation, Annihilation

Neither a Trial nor Inquisition

Tule Lake

Hiroshima

9. Resettlement and Dispersal

Normal American Communities

The Suicide of Julia Dakuzaku

Plantation versus Cooperative Colony

10. Occupation and Statehood

Adopting the American Way

Queering the Empire

Rock ’n’ Roll and Redemption

Epilogue

Democracy Is for the Unafraid

Clichés of American Happiness

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index