| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Karen L. Riley. Schools Behind Barbed Wire: The Untold Story of Wartime Internment and the Children of Arrested Enemy Aliens. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2002. Pp. xix, 175. Cloth $69.00, paper $21.95.

Karen L. Riley's book recounts the history of the schools that operated at the Crystal City Family Internment Camp in Texas during World War II. Crystal City, established by the United States Justice Department during 1942, held German and Japanese immigrants to the United States whom the government considered potentially dangerous, as well as Latin Americans of German and Japanese ancestry who were expelled by their home countries and confined under a program brokered by the U.S. State Department. The schools were founded thereafter to educate the several hundred children of these families, almost all of whom were citizens of the United States or their Latin American birthplaces but who had been interned with their "enemy alien" parents. Although ethnic German and Japanese children mixed freely, their communities remained largely separated within the camp (indeed, German internee laborers staged a successful work stoppage to prevent administrators from transforming the camp into an all-Japanese facility). . . .

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