Enemies Within

by Iacovetta, Franca; Perin, Roberto; Principe, Angelo

• ISBN13: 9780802044464
• ISBN10: 0802044468
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

In the recent campaign led by the National Congress of Italian Canadians to gain redress for compatriots interned during the Second World War, leaders claimed that the Canadian state had waged a 'war against ethnicity.' Their version of history, argue the editors, drew on selective evidence and glossed over the fascist past of some Italian Canadians. The editors have assembled scholars who, while having diverse views, seek to stimulate informed debate. Enemies Within is the first study of its kind to examine not only the formulation and uneven implementation of internment policy, but the social and gender history of internment. It brings together national and international perspectives. The book offers differing interpretations of Italian internment in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. It invites comparisons between Italian Canadians and Canada's other internees, including Communists, German Canadians, Ukrainian Canadians and Jewish refugees. Contemporary redress campaigns are examined. Masculinity, female internees, Communist women's release politics, and memory culture are some of the little-studied subjects that also receive attention. This book contains photographs never before seen. A general introduction and four section introductions provide valuable background to the issues being discussed.

Author Biography

Franca Iacovetta is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. ROBERTO PERIN is a professor of history at York University. ANGELO PRINCIPE teaches part-time at York University and the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction -- Italians and Wartime Internment: Comparative Perspectives on Public Policy, Historical Memory, and Daily Life	3	(20)
Franca Iacovetta
Roberto Perin
Part One -- Italian Canadians, Fascism, and Internment: Black Shirts or Sheep?	23	(98)
A Tangled Knot: Prelude to 10 June 1940	27	(25)
Angelo Principe
Exporting Fascism to Canada: Toronto's Little Italy	52	(24)
Luigi G. Pennacchio
The Internment of Italian Canadians	76	(23)
Luigi Bruti Liberati
`Uneasy Neighbours': Internment and Hamilton's Italians	99	(22)
Enrico Carlson Cumbo
Part Two -- Other Canadian Internees: Drawing Distinctions	121	(104)
A War on Ethnicity? The RCMP and Internment	128	(20)
Reg Whitaker
Gregory S. Kealey
The Curious Case of Female Internees	148	(23)
Michelle McBride
The `Camp Boys': Interned Refugees from Nazism	171	(23)
Paula J. Draper
Political Prisoners: The Communist Internees	194	(31)
Ian Radforth
Part Three -- Italians Interned Abroad: Three Case Studies	225	(82)
The Internment of Italians in Australia	227	(29)
R. J. B. Bosworth
The Internment of Italians in Britain	256	(24)
Lucio Sponza
When Italian Americans Were `Enemy Aliens'	280	(27)
Rose D. Scherini
Part Four -- Memory and Redress: The Uses of the Past	307	(106)
Actor or Victim? Mario Duliani and His Internment Narrative	312	(23)
Roberto Perin
Images of Internment	335	(20)
Gabriele Scardellato
The Politics of Redress: The Contemporary Ukrainian-Canadian Campaign	355	(24)
Frances Swyripa
Redress, Collective Memory, and the Politics of History	379	(34)
Franca Iacovetta
Robert Ventresca
Contributors	413	(4)
Illustration Credits	417	(2)
Index	419