The American Concentration Camps: A Cover-Up Through Euphemistic Terminology
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Densho
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OBJECT ID
ddr-densho-1007-1831
PARENT COLLECTION
Loni Ding Oral History and Film Research Collection
DESCRIPTION
This essay is a revised version of Raymond Y. Okamura's testimony to the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians describing policies and terminology used by the U.S. government to enforce wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans. He compares the American government's misleading terminology to that of Nazi propaganda. See related object: ddr-densho-1007-1814.
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Manuscripts
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Document
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CREATORS
- Okamura, Raymond (author)
- The Journal of Ethnic Studies (publisher)
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Densho
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of David Welsh, The Center for Educational Telecommunications (CET)
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
