Nature behind Barbed Wire

If all the Japs were removed tomorrow,” a white California grower stated, “we'd never miss them in two weeks, because the white farmers can take over and produce everything the Jap grows. And we don't want them back when the war ends, either” (p. 20). Such an adamant racism, coupled with the hasty decision of the federal government, forced over 110,000 Japanese in the Pacific states to undergo their “trail of tears” to the desolate interior desert. The story of Japanese American relocation is a familiar one, but Connie Y. Chiang offers a new perspective, paying particular attention to the evacuees' attitudes, reactions, and achievements. She presents a moving story based upon an exhaustive research not only in primary materials of all kinds but also in the indispensable secondary works and concentrating on four of the ten relocation centers (Gila River in Arizona, Manzanar in California, Minidoka in Idaho, and Topaz in Utah

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