Topaz Oral History Project research files: Published articles (1920s-1980s)

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-rica and eventual re-integra­gly analyzes his subjects compounds of a number al business as an Episco-of her early years, gives y in pre-war Seattle. Her ip to Japan are probably rd Japan and its culture. ns (New York: William ve story of the Japanese r, a well-known journal­: uated and relocated. His :en for the lay reader, is :ount of the plight of the · periods during the war ed The Spoilage and co­" ld -Los Angeles: Univer­ ·oblems of those groups pan. (It should be noted lRA, such as Professor . thor's description of the ttion process serves as a 1 in the official govern­me, The Salvage: Japanese with the assistance of td Los Angeles: Univer­. of representative case ·of their lives following ief surveys of the eco­Japanese identifies the .nd Japanese Americans "le evacuation and relo-t mericans: Symbol of Ra­. pany, 1944) while the ic. It indicts American h.e official government ns' account relates the the triumph of anti­ed in the expulsion of !Se ancestry from their The Wartime Relocation of Japanese I 143 homes. The work al so assesses the effect of that biased treatment of the Japanese on the peoples of post-war Asia. Removal and Return: The Socio-Economic £/feels of the War on Japanese Americans by Leonard Broom (also Bloom) and Ruth Riemer (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1949. University of California Publications in Culture and Society, IV, 1949) is a sociological study of the evacuees and the impact of the evacuation on their eco­nomic and occupational status. Case histories provide ·ample evidence that U.S. government agencies failed to protect Japanese American property and interests. The authors comment on how certain govern­ment agencies minimize that failure in their official records. Case history studies on Japanese families are found in Volume VI of the University of California Publications in Culture and Society, The M anaged Casualty: The Japanese-American Family in World War II by Leonard Broom and John I. Kitsuse (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univer­sity of California Press, 1956). This work includes a brief general survey of the evacuation and relocation. Case histories cite the solidarity of Japanese families prior to the evacuation, family disintegration in relo­cation, and post-war settlement and reintegration. The study shows clearly that the evacuation undermined the authority of heads of households with a consequent breakdown in family solidarity which resulted in more individualism and independence for the younger members. Alexander H. Leighton in the Governing of Men: General Principles and Recommendations Based on Experience at a Japanese Relocation Camp (Prince­ton: Princeton University Press, 1945) studies the Poston Relocation Center in depth. The study is based on an investigation of the social and anthropological aspects of camp life. A team of experts analyzed social problems in the camp, such as those which resulted in a strike against the administration. The analysis was the basis of recommendations made to the governmental authorities concerning those features of com­munity management judged to be useful in the administration of "occu­pied areas" in the Pacific. Probably the best study on the cultural and artistic activities in the relocation communities is the short work by Allen H. Eaton, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of !he Japanese in Our Relocation Camps (New York: Harper, 1952). Despite the vicissitudes of camp life, many evacuees brought beauty to their otherwise bleak surroundings, creating works of art by judiciously blending their natural and human resources. The author describes the hobbies and group activities which helped to keep the Japanese constructively occupied. A selection of photographs portrays the range of talent present among the evacuees. The work