Dark Shadows of the Homefront: Crystal City and Internment During World War II

Author(s): Carroll J Scogin-Brincefield

Year: 2015

Summary

Dark Shadows of the Home-front During America’s World War II

 Crystal City and Internment

Carroll-Scogin-Brincefield MA 

The textbooks and historical documentaries all discuss the shameful treatment of Japanese Americans being forced to relocation and internment camps during World War II, but selective amnesia concerning German and Italian Americans have left a void in the true history of internments in the United States. Texas had 21 POW camps and 3 Internment camps, that’s twice the amount of POW camps than any state and the largest family internment camp in America.

 

This paper will discuss the Crystal City Family Internment Camp, the largest internment camp in America and what the archeological and anthropological studies say about camp life, the families interned and the citizens of Crystal City, Texas. Also the correlation between POW camps and internment camps will be discussed as part of an ongoing anthropological study.

 

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Dark Shadows of the Homefront: Crystal City and Internment During World War II. Carroll J Scogin-Brincefield. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Seattle, Washington. 2015 ( tDAR id: 433844)

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Keywords

Temporal Keywords
1940'S

Spatial Coverage

min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

Record Identifiers

PaperId(s): 211