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.
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"A wonderful blend of personal and institutional histories, From Concentration Camp to Campus reveals the dilemmas and complexities of racism and anti-racism. This well told, though regrettably little known, tale invites us to reconsider the ideas of philanthropy, education, and democracy."
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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 four thousand incarcerated students pursue higher education at more than six hundred schools during WWII.
Allan W. Austin’s From Concentration Camp to Campus examines the Council's work and the challenges it faced in an atmosphere of pervasive wartime racism. Austin also reveals the voices of students as they worked to construct their own meaning for wartime experiences under pressure of forced and total assimilation. Austin argues that the resettled students succeeded in reintegrating themselves into the wider American society without sacrificing their connections to community and their Japanese cultural heritage.
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Allan Austin is an immigration historian who studies the contested meanings of race and American identity, especially in the 20th-century United States. He has explored these issues in his book, From Concentration Camp to Campus: Japanese American Students and World War II (University of Illinois Press, 2004), as well as articles in various scholarly journals and anthologies. He has also co-edited two projects, Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia (M.E. Sharpe, 2010, with Huping Ling) and Space and Time: Essays on Visions of History in Science Fiction and Fantasy Television, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, in press (McFarland Press, 2010, with David C. Wright Jr.). His current project, "The 'Friendly principle of brotherhood': The American Friends Service Committee, Quakers, and Race in the United States, 1917-1950, is under contract with University of Illinois Press.
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A Japanese American college student incarcerated at the Tanforan camp in 1942 discovered that by climbing a hill he could see a familiar sign that he had driven past countless times on his way to school. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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A Japanese American college student incarcerated at the Tanforan camp in 1942 discovered that by climbing a hill he could see a familiar sign that he had driven past countless times on his way to school. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
student resettlement, resettled students, buff leaflet, camp high school graduates, proscribed colleges, student relocation, incarcerated students, relocation officer, church hoards, placement department, resettlement efforts, proscribed list, camp newspapers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Coast, Japanese American, United States, Tule Lake, University of California, War Department, Pearl Harbor, Penn State, East Coast, San Francisco, Elizabeth Emlen, Los Angeles, World War, American Legion, Executive Committee, Woodruff Emlen, Trudy King, Ohio State, Student Relocation Committee, Executive Order, Presbyterian Church, Heart Mountain, Thomas Bodine, Fay Campbell, Gila River Browse Sample Pages:
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