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ddr-densho-493-36

PARENT COLLECTION

Tomio Itabashi and Frances (Itabashi) Nishimura Collection

DESCRIPTION

31-page pamphlet authored by Carey McWilliams for the American Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations, published by the Public Affairs Committee, Inc. as part of a Public Affairs Pamphlets series. Inner note says that the text was also to be published shortly by Little, Brown and Company under the title of Prejudice. The Japanese-Americans: a Symbol of Racial Intolerance. Written in the third year of war after the initial hysteria had somewhat subsided, the text sets out to examine why and how the incarceration occurred, whether it was undertaken out of racial prejudice rather than for the reasons publicly claimed, and what its consequences will be both for the affected populations and more broadly. It offers a brief history of Japanese immigrants in the US, a history of the evacuation and summaries of the camp conditions, the loyalty questionnaire episode, and the aftermath and resettlement efforts (at least as far as 1944, the year of writing). Also explores the so-called "democratic possibilities" of the relocation effort, ways that it might be "justified as an extension of democracy." Ends with a list of sources for further reading.

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Densho

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Courtesy of Tomio Itabashi and Frances (Itabashi) Nishimura Collection, Densho

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