Impounded People : Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers / / Edward H. Spicer, Asael T. Hansen, Katherine Luomala, Marvin K. Opler.
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, a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Tucson, Arizona : : University of Arizona Press,, 2021. ©2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource viii, 342 pages) :; illustrations, maps, plans. |
| Notes: | "Written in 1946 as one of the final reports of ... the War Relocation Authority." |
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Table of 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.