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Title: Before Pearl Harbor
Citation Type: Book, Section
Publication Year: 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-38619-0
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38619-0_2
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Abstract: On the eve of World War II, a number of threads converged and resulted in the evacuation and incarceration of Japanese Americans that followed the outbreak of war. They include demographic and economic situation of the West Coast of the United States, particularly the Japanese ancestry community; the information from and characteristics of the federal statistical system and the census at the time; the emerging mobilization for national defense as war loomed; and the political strategies and personalities in the Roosevelt administration who would soon be called upon to protect the nation and prosecute the war. "Regarding the 1940 census. Suggest someone get to work right away to see if they cannot break down at the earliest possible moment the Japanese figures of this census. I suggest this because I find that no one has any really reliable figures and the data are all available in the 1940 census which has already been taken. Each district is working on these figures but it means a terrible lot of work which they should be putting on other things and in the end will only be a duplication of what the census already has. These figures should be broken down to show distribution of all people in the United States of Japanese descent right down to counties…." Presidential Advisor John Franklin Carter to Henry Field, November 14, 1941 (Carter 1941)
Url: https://link-springer-com.ezp2.lib.umn.edu/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-38619-0_2
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Authors: Anderson, Margo; Seltzer, William
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Pages: 9-47
Volume Title: Use and Misuse of the United States Census
Publisher: Springer, Cham
Publisher Location: Cham
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Methodology and Data Collection, Race and Ethnicity
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