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Searching for Subversives
Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Sachbuch / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
Beschreibung
When the United States entered World War II, Italian nationals living in this country were declared enemy aliens and faced with legal restrictions. Several thousand aliens and a few U.S. citizens were arrested and underwent flawed hearings, and hundreds were interned. 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-depth legal analysis illuminates a process not widely understood. From presumptive guilt in the arrest and internment based on membership in social and political organizations, to hurdles in attaining American citizenship, Chopas uncovers many layers of repression not heretofore revealed in scholarship about the World War II home front.
In telling the stories of former internees and persons excluded from military zones as they attempted to resume their lives after the war, Chopas demonstrates the lasting social and cultural effects of government policies on the Italian American community, and addresses the modern problem of identifying threats in a largely loyal and peaceful population.
Kundenbewertungen
Federal Bureau of Investigation, civil liberties for noncitizens, curfews, selective internment, Nicholas Kelley, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Italian naturalized citizens, Professor Erwin Griswold, enemy alien, Fascism, Italian internment, Gino Speranza, Italian civilian internees, Attorney General Francis Biddle, World War II, Tolan Committee, War Department, internment camps, Franklin D. Roosevelt, alien enemy, Fiorello La Guardia, General John DeWitt, individual exclusion, Vito Marcantonio, Department of Justice, deportation of Italian aliens, Fort Missoula, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, Executive Order 9066, Italian nationals, repatriation of Italian aliens, alien enemy hearing boards, Edward Corsi, General Hugh Drum, Immigration and Naturalization Services, Italian Americans