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Show A complete documenbry H'eord of the activities of 'VRA is found in the National Archives and in the University of California Library at Berkeley. The latter, which was used by the writer, includes general manuscript histories of the variullS divisiolls, reports, ccnter newspapers and magazines, scrapbooks, and other material from the general office of 'VRA and from each of the ten relocation centers. The material at Berkeley is catalogued in Japanese American evacuation and wsettlement: Catalog of material in the General Library, by Edward N. Barnhart, published by the University of California Press in 1958. Some personal papers (diaries, letters, etc.) arc catalogued but are not available to the researcher. Other material which specifically bears on the Central Utah Relocation Center at Topaz includes: Hardy, Douglas W. "Caucasian attitudes toward Japanese in metropolitan Salt Lake City." Salt Lake City, University of Utah, M. A. thesis. 1947. Okubo, Mine'. Citizen 13660. New York, Columbia University Press, 1946. Petprson, Erma, and Callie O. Morley. "History of Topaz" in Milestones of Millard; A century of history of Millard County, 1851-1951, by Daughters of Utah Pioneers of Millard County. Springville, Utah, Art City Publishing Company, 1951. pp. 610-619. Smith, Elmer n. "Japanese relocation study of Utah" (preliminary report) University of California Library, April 1944. (mimeo.) Berkeley. "Welcome to Topaz." Topaz, Utah, September, 1943. (mimeo.) (in possession of the writer.) Periodicals and Newspapers A complete set of the Topaz Times (September 17, 19-12 - August 31, 1945) is available in the University of California Library at Berkeley, as are the three numbers of Trek, an art and literary magazine published by the Topaz evacuees. Articles from these publications, as well as from the Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City) and Millard County Chronicle (Delta), have been used extensively in preparing this lecture. Many articles have been published in national magazines dealing with the subject. Among the most useful have been: BaIlif, Ariel S. "Reactions to laborers from relocation centers." Sociology and Social Research 29: 40-45. September-October 1944. Barnhart, Edward N. "The individual exclusion of Japanese Americans in World War II." Pacific lIistorical Review 229: 111-130. May 1960. "Belated justice." Christian Century. September 28, 19-19, p. 1128. "Disguised blessing." Newsweek 52: 23. December 29, 1958. Fisher, Galen M. "Japanese colony: Success story." Survey Graphic 32: 41-43. February 1943. "Issei, Nisei, Kibei." Fortune 29: 8 ff. April 1944. Iwata, Masakazu. "The Japanesj'l immigrants in California agriculture." Agricultural lIistory 36: 25-37. January 1962. McEvoy, J.M. "Our 110,000 new boarders." Readers Digest 42: 65-68. March 1943. The Pacific Citizen, various issues. Published weekly in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles by the Japanese American Citizens' League. Rostow, Eugene V. "Our worst wartime mistake." Harpers Magazine 191: 193-201. September 1945. Smith, Elmer R. "The 'Japanese' in Utah." Utah Humanities Review 2: 129144, 208-230. April, July 1948. Tani, Henry. "The Nisei since Pearl Harbor." The Pacific Spectator 1: 203-213. Spring 1947. -45- |
