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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chopas, Mary Elizabeth Basile (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Series:H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
Subjects:
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.
Concentration camps > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Italian Americans.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The legal and political history of Italian immigrants in the United States before 1941
  • The face of selective internment and the impact of other wartime restrictions
  • The struggle for justice in the internment process
  • Bocce behind barbed wire : checks on government power in the camps
  • Conclusion.