Introduction
Unnatural but Not Un-American
Not American, Not Again
Human Differences, Human Rights
1. Expansion and Restriction
Christian Empire
Self-Sufficiency, Sandalwood, and Sugar
White Citizenship, Racial Hierarchy
2. Subversion
Perverse Sexuality
House Un-American Activities
Segregation versus Extermination
3. Concentration and Cooperation
Collective Living
Cooperative Enterprises
Competitive Sports
Participatory Democracy
4. Camp Life
Gendered Spaces
Caucasian Environments
Unusual Places
5. Race, War, Dances
Complicating the Color Line
Courting within the Color Lines
Authorizing Gender Roles
6. Americanization and Christianization
Schooling in the Nation
Drawing Out the Nation
Safeguarding Buddhism
Worshipping of the Nation
7. Strikes and Resistance
Disputes over Pay and Conditions
The Woodcutters Strike and the Death of Seizo Imada
The Motor Repair Strike
The General Strike and the Death of Haruji Ego
8. Segregation, Expatriation, Annihilation
Neither a Trial nor Inquisition
Tule Lake
Hiroshima
9. Resettlement and Dispersal
Normal American Communities
The Suicide of Julia Dakuzaku
Plantation versus Cooperative Colony
10. Occupation and Statehood
Adopting the American Way
Queering the Empire
Rock ’n’ Roll and Redemption
Epilogue
Democracy Is for the Unafraid
Clichés of American Happiness
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index