Impounded People : Japanese-Americans in the relocation centers / Edward Holland Spicer [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spicer, Edward Holland, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internment camps.

Segregation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 342 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona Press, 1969.

Summary:

This important final report of the War Relocation Authority, written in 1946 and now released in book form with a comprehensive introduction by Edward H. Spicer, describes the growth and changes in the community life and how attitudes of Japanese-American relocatees and WRA administrators evolved, adjusted, and affected one another on political, social, and psychological levels.

Contents:

Prologue. The process of scapegoating ; A west coast dilemma ; The evacuated people

Moving in. Impact of the relocation centers ; The administrative staff ; Evacuee and caucasian ; Work and wages ; A world of rumor ; The blocks: foundations of community life ; Community cross currents ; The outside ; Crises

Being sorted. Registration-a new crisis ; An emerging framework of community life ; The sorting ; Fruits of segregation

Settling down. Programs-government and evacuee ; Evacuee orientations ; Stabilization of staff-evacuee relations ; The center way of life ; Tule Lake ; Disintegrating factors-the war and resettlement

Getting out. Holding the centers ; The stake in America ; Disintegration of the centers ; Confusion at Tule Lake

Epilogue. The journey continued ; The journey back ; Discontinuities and continuities.

Notes:

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