Japanese-American evacuation and resettlement : during World War II / [director of the study] Dorothy Swaine Thomas.

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1969, c1946.

3 volumes : illustrations, photographs, charts ; 25 cm

BEIN Gray Social Thought 3051: Imperfect: volumes two and three wanting. Volume one has presentation inscription from Dorothy S. Thomas to Dr. Walter H. Judd. Stamp on volume one: J.L. Penick. From the library of Bradford H. Gray.

" ... the director of the study⁸ ; [footnote] 8. The senior author of this volume."--Page x, The Spoilage.

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. In 1942, a group of social scientists at the University of California, Berkeley undertook a study of the evacuation, detention, and resettlement of the Japanese minority in the United States. This study looked at these events through the lenses of sociology, social anthropology, social psychology, political science, and economics. The study aimed to record and analyze the changes in behavior, attitudes, and patterns of social adjustment and interaction of the people to whom these policies and regulations had been applied. The information for what became known as the University of California, Berkeley Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study was gathered by trained observers who were themselves participating and reacting to the events under observation, both Japanese Americans who were interned, and "Caucasian" staff members. Each kept detailed journals, appended by any documents that could be obtained. When hostilities ceased, work began on analyzing and organizing the resulting data. The first volume addresses the "Spoilage" resulting from evacuation and detention, including Japanese immigrants who returned to Japan, Japanese Americans who relinquished their American citizenship, and those stigmatized as "disloyal" by their captors or comrades. The second volume addresses the "Salvage" of those interned persons whose status was improved by resettlement in the East and Middle West, and those who returned after participating in the war effort. The final volume, "Prejudice, War, and the Constitution" surveys the historical origins, political characteristics, and legal consequences of that calamitous episode, describing myths and suspicions about Japanese-Americans, tracing the influence of racial bigotry in the evacuation, and the court cases growing out of it.

English

June 01, 2002

Includes footnotes with bibliographical references [volumes 1 and 2], glossary [volume 2], notes (pages 337-396) [volume 3], and indexes.

History.