[BOOK][B] The spoilage: Japanese-American evacuation and resettlement during World War II

DS Thomas, RS Nishimoto - 2010 - books.google.com
During World War II, 110,000 citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry were
banished from their homes and confined behind barbed wire for two and a half years. No
more blatant violation of civil rights has ever been decreed by an American president, yet so
strong were the currents of bigotry and war time hysteria that effective political opposition
was impossible. However, a group of University of California social scientists, sensing the
enormity of the outrage, organized in 1942 to record and analyze the causes, legal and …

[BOOK][B] The salvage: Japanese American evacuation and resettlement

DS Thomas - 2023 - books.google.com
T AN 1946, the University of California Press published The Spoilage, by Dorothy Swaine
Thomas and Richard S. Nishimoto. Publication of The Salvage completes the plan,
announced at that time, for a two-volume work on social aspects of the wartime evacuation,
detention, segregation, and resettlement of the Japanese American minority. As stated in
The Spoilage: The first volume analyzes the experiences of that part of the minority group
whose status in America was impaired: those of the immigrant generation who returned …