Monday, December 3, 2018, 6pm EDT. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY. 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036. Searching for Subversives: The Story of Italian Internment in Wartime America - Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
When the United States entered World War II, it subjected Italian nationals living within its borders to legal restrictions and labeled them enemy aliens. Several thousand of these people and some U.S. citizens were arrested and underwent flawed hearings; hundreds were interned. Shedding new light on this injustice, Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas's Searching for Subversives (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) describes how government and military leaders constructed wartime policies that affected Italian residents.
Based on new research, this in-depth legal analysis uncovers many layers of repression not previously revealed in scholarship about the wartime home front and demonstrates the lasting social and cultural effects of government policies on the Italian American community.
SOURCE: John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
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