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Title
What about our Japanese-Americans?
Creator
Institute of Pacific Relations. American Council: publisher
McWilliams, Carey, 1905-1980: author
Date Created and/or Issued
[1944]
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Honnold Mudd Library Special Collections at http://libraries.claremont.edu/sc
Description
Pamphlet summarizing the history of Japanese Americans in the United States, reasons for evacuation given by General DeWitt, incarceration camp policies and conditions, and commercial and populist responses to evacuation. The pamphlet also speculates on the "democratic potential" of a post-incarceration Japanese American Diaspora.
Dennis G. "Denny" Kruska, a graduate of University of California, Los Angeles, Hughes Aircraft physicist, venture capitalist researcher, printing consultant, historical author and bibliographer and collector of Yosemite and Sierra Nevada materials amassed this collection of Japanese American internment items. The collection covers a wide variety of materials, ranging from 1905 to 2013 which are arranged into six series, with like materials being grouped together, including newspapers and clippings, photographs, postal materials, printed matter, realia, and research material.
Type
text
Format
Pamphlets
34 pages, typescript, 8.25 x 5.25 inches
image/jpeg
Identifier
tccl_jai00018
tccl_kru_00018
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/25117
Language
English
Subject
Sabotage
World War II--'Enemy Alien' Classification
World War II--Administration--Registration and 'loyalty questionnaire
World War II--Non-Incarcerated Japanese Americans
World War II--Incarceration camps
World War II--Incarceration camps--Facilities, services, and camp administration
Source
Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c87h1nv9/
Kruska Japanese Internment Collection

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