From Concentration Camp to Campus
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America's Concentration Camp
anti-Japanese racism
Asian American experience
Asian American history
Author_Allan W. Austin
camp experiences
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community memory
concentration camp
documentary
documenting Japanese American camps
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Executive Order 9066
incarceration
internment camps
Japanese American communities
Japanese American community
Japanese American history
Japanese American incarceration
Japanese American inmates
Japanese American students in WWII
Japanese Americans
Japanese cultural heritage
Japanese heritage
Japanese incarceration
mass incarceration in US history
memoir
memoir of internment camps
memoir of Japanese American internment
memory
National Japanese American Student Relocation Council
personal experiences
personal stories
trauma
trauma and Japanese American incarceration
wartime racism
World War II
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- ISBN 9780252074493
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 May 2007
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the aftermath of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the systematic exile and incarceration of thousands of Japanese Americans, the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council was born. Created to facilitate the movement of Japanese American college students from concentration camps to colleges away from the West Coast, this privately organized and funded agency helped more than 4,000 incarcerated students pursue higher education at more than 600 schools during WWII.
Austin argues that the resettled students transformed the attempts at assimilation to create their own meanings and suit their own purposes, and succeeded in reintegrating themselves into the wider American society without sacrificing their connections to community and their Japanese cultural heritage.
Austin argues that the resettled students transformed the attempts at assimilation to create their own meanings and suit their own purposes, and succeeded in reintegrating themselves into the wider American society without sacrificing their connections to community and their Japanese cultural heritage.
Allan W. Austin is a professor of history at Misericordia University. He is the author of Quaker Brotherhood: Interracial Activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950.
