Spoilage JAPANESE AMERICAN EVACUATION Resettlement ~ Thomas & Nishimoto 1946 WW2

Description: The Spoilage: Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement THOMAS, Dorothy Swaine, Richard Nishimoto Published by University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1946. First Edition.. Cloth hardcover with mottling /darkening to cloth else good binding sound in rare dust jacket with edge tears and wear else intact; 388 pages with index some illustrations. 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 social consequences, and long-term effects of the detention program. The Spoilage, one of a series of books which resulted, analyzes the experiences of that part of the detained group-some 18,000 in total-whose response was to renounce America as a homeland; it shows the steps by which these "disloyal" citizens were inexorably pushed toward the disaster of denationalization. Essentially the result of years of research by participant observers of Japanese ancestry, it is a factual record of enduring value to the student of America's troubled ethnic relations. "Richard Shigeaki Nishimoto (1904-56) is probably the most cited Issei author who wrote on the camps in English—specifically on the WRA camp known as Tule Lake . Educated in both Japan and the USA, Nishimoto distinguished himself as the only Issei to be employed full-time as a researcher for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS). He was also the only Japanese American co-author of any of the JERS publications, authoring The Spoilage (1946) with JERS director Dorothy S. Thomas. Besides being an Issei, Nishimoto was atypical of JERS researchers in that he was an active community leader in Poston , and thus drew from a unique point of view as both an "insider," and an "analytic" observer." (Densho)

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