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Author Chopas, Mary Elizabeth Basile, author.

Title Searching for subversives : the story of Italian internment in wartime America / Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

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 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  940.531 CHO    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 232 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-221) and index.
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.
Subject 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.
ISBN 9781469634333 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
1469634333 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
9781469634340 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
1469634341 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
9781469634357 (electronic book)
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