Japanese-American Relocation in World War II A Reconsideration

Introduction: relocation, a racial obsession -- Section I. The reach of American racism? -- Racism and anti-racism -- The ballad of Frankie Seto: winning despite the odds -- Chinese and European origins of the coast alien dilemma -- Impact of World War II: a multicusal brief -- The lagging backlash -- The looming Roberts Report -- Races and racism -- Section II. Concentration camps or relocation centers? -- Definitions versus historical reality: concentration camps in Cuba, South Africa, the Philippines -- Resistance or cooperation? -- Bowling in Twin Falls: an open-door leave policy -- Daily life: food, labor, sickness, and health -- Wartime attitudes toward relocation -- Family life, personal freedom, and combat fatigue -- Economics and the dust of Nikkei memory -- Consumerism: shopping at Sears -- The leisure revolution: Mary Kagoyama, the sweetheart of Manzanar -- Of horse stalls and modern memory-housing and living conditions -- Politics -- Culture: of judo and the jive bombers -- Freedom of religion -- Education, the passion of Dillon Myer -- The right to know, information and the free flow of ideas -- Administrators and administration -- Section III. The demise of relocation -- Politics of equilibrium-friends enemies on and the outside -- Endgame: termination of the centers -- Conclusion: the place of race