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Concentration Camps USA: Japanese Americans and World War II
Concentration Camps USA Japanese Americans and World War II Author:Roger Daniels Minority history, once a euphemism disguising unpleasant or intractable social realities, has come to be viewed as a source of American vitality and self-illumination. In an era when American society has been undergoing a vast realignment of its human resources, institutions, and habits of mind, Americans are more prone than ever to see th... more »at the experiences of ethnic, regional, social, economic, occupational, political, religious, intellectual, and other well-defined groups have spotlighted and personalized strategic problems in the American past.
Roger Daniels has written the history of one American ethnic group singled out for degradation in a time of national crisis. He has given full and dramatic coverage to every phase of the story beginning with the pre-Pearl Harbor history of the Japanese in the United States. He has given special attention to the resistance and protest of the evacuees, an aspect neglected or glossed over by others. Above all, he has spelled out the wider implications of the experiences of the Japanese Americans during World War II with clarity and authoritativeness. It is difficult to imagine that other Americans will ever be forced to undergo so fundamental a betrayal of everything that the nation has stood for. This book is intended both as a reminder and a warning.« less