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Keeper of concentration camps : Dillon S. Myer and American racism / Richard Drinnon.
- Title
- Keeper of concentration camps : Dillon S. Myer and American racism / Richard Drinnon.
- Author
- Drinnon, Richard
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1987.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E748.M93 D74 1987 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxviii, 339 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Analyzing the career of Dillon S. Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority during WWII and Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1950-53, Richard Drinnon shows that the pattern for the Japanese internment was set a century earlier by the removal, confinement, and scattering of Native Americans.
- Subject
- Myer, Dillon S. 1891-1982
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
- Since 1900
- Geschichte 1942-1945
- Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
- Indians of North America > Government relations > 1934-
- Racism > United States > History > 20th century
- United States > Officials and employees > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 271-324.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Origins -- The WRA Story of Human Conservation -- Farm Boy -- Japanese Americans -- Director -- Scatterer -- Segregator -- "Troublemakers" -- Jailer -- Native Americans -- Commissioner -- "Wily" Indians -- "Fomenter of Trouble": Felix S. Cohen -- Terminator.
- ISBN
- 0520057937 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^86007058^
- OCLC
- 13456485
- SCSB-9969796
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library