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Natasha Varner
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.@hcmaruyama is doing excellent work to show how WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans was part of a larger project of US settler colonialism. Her review of Chiang's new environmental history of JA incarceration gives a small taste of what's to come.
edgeeffects.net/connie-chiang-…
"The WRA preferred sites with 'year-round work' for detainees on public lands so that their labor would benefit the public. Many of the camps’ agricultural and irrigation projects implicitly advanced settler ideals about land management and ownership."
"A WRA press release extolled the potential of the camps to create opportunities for 'occupation by white settlers' and 'homesteading of desert lands.' Japanese Americans, other people of color, and Indigenous peoples were not envisioned among these sites’ future occupants."
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New Orleans' Camp Algiers was a major entry point for Japanese Latin Americans who were kidnapped and brought to the US during WWII. In many cases they were quarantined and showered in DDT there before being sent to more permanent detention sites.
Thanks to @jonvoss for pointing me to this article, which talks about the site's history as a detention facility for suspected Nazi sympathizers from Latin America. wwno.org/post/wwii-inte…
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