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Description
A letter in response to questions about the reasoning behind the War Department's exclusion policy toward people of Japanese ancestry. The collection contains material used by Carey McWilliams in writing the book, Prejudice: Japanese Americans, symbol of racial intolerance (Little, Brown, 1944). It includes U.S. War Relocation Authority records, confidential reports, bibliographies, clippings and compilations of articles, legal papers, correspondence between McWilliams and Japanese American evacuees, relocation camp newspapers and other publications, two copies of his book, and five copies of the 1994 videocassette (40 min.), Something Strong Within.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence 4 pages, typescript, 11 x 8.5 inches application/pdf
Identity and values--Japanese American identity Identity and values--Nisei Identity and values--Issei World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Exclusion orders
Place
San Francisco, California
Source
Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library
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