Searching for subversives : the story of Italian internment in wartime America /

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Shedding new light on an injustice often overshadowed by the mass confinement of Japanese Americans, Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas traces how government and military leaders constructed wartime policies affecting Italian residents. Based on new archival research into the alien enemy hearings, this in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chopas, Mary Elizabeth Basile (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Series:H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
Subjects:
1933-1945
Italian Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942.
Immigrants > Government policy > United States.
Italians > Government policy > United States.
Italians > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History > 1933-1945.
Internment camps > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Italian Americans.
Américains d'origine italienne > Relogement et internement forcés, 1942.
Italiens > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Camps d'internement > États-Unis.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Camps d'internement > États-Unis.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Internment camps
Immigrants > Government policy
Italian Americans
Italians > Legal status, laws, etc.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Legal and political history of Italian immigrants in the United States preceding 1941
  • The face of selective internment and the impact of other wartime restrictions
  • I was given a so-called hearing : the struggle for justice in the internment process
  • Bocce behind barbed wire : checks on government power in the camps.

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