Table Of ContentJapanese Americans at Heart Mountain
Japanese Americans at
Heart Mountain
Networks, Power, and Everyday Life
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Saara Kekki
University of Oklahoma Press : Norman
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Names: Kekki, Saara, 1982– author.
Title: Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain : networks, power, and everyday life /
Saara Kekki.
Description: [Norman] : University of Oklahoma Press, [2022] | Includes
bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Explores the networks of Japanese
American inmates at the Heart Mountain, Wyoming, incarceration camp from 1942
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Identifiers: LCCN 2022022525 | ISBN 978-0-8061-9080-8 (hardcover) |
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Subjects: LCSH: Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.) | Japanese Americans—
Forced removal and internment, 1942–1945. | World War, 1939–1945—
Concentration camps—Wyoming. | Japanese Americans—Wyoming—Social
conditions—20th century. | Japanese Americans—Social conditions—20th century.
| United States—Race relations—History. | BISAC: HISTORY / Modern / 20th
Century / General | HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO,
HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Classification: LCC D769.8.A6 K44 2022 | DDC
940.53/1773089956—dc23/eng/20220516
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Contents
Abbreviations ix
Maps and Figures xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Preface xvii
Chapter 1
Introduction: Network Analysis and the Study of
Japanese American History 1
Chapter 2
From Immigration to Incarceration: The Japanese in the United States,
1890–1942 14
Chapter 3
Heart Mountain Community and Modeling the Networks 31
Chapter 4
Those Who Govern: Political Power 46
Chapter 5
Sense of Belonging 65
Chapter 6
Individuals of Power and Power Families 86
Chapter 7
Women of Heart Mountain 103
Chapter 8
Disobedience behind Barbed Wire: Passive and Active Resistance 122
Chapter 9
Onward: Routes to Freedom 152
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Epilogue: Networks of Power and the Power of Networks 166
Methodological Appendix 171
Notes 179
Bibliography 203
Abbreviations
ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union
CWRIC: Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
DNA: Dynamic network analysis
DYC: David Yamakawa Collection
FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation
FPC: Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee
FSEP: Frank S. Emi Papers
HMWF: Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation
HSTPL: Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
JACL: Japanese American Citizens League
JAERR: Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Records
NARA: National Archives and Records Administration
OAC: Online Archive of California
RHP: Ruth Hashimoto Papers
SNA: Social network analysis
USO: United Service Organizations
YBA: Young Buddhists’ Association
YMCA: Young Men’s Christian Association
YWCA: Young Women’s Christian Association
WRA: War Relocation Authority
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