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Book Review
Canada and the United States
| Allan W. Austin. From Concentration Camp to Campus: Japanese American Students and World War II. (The Asian American Experience.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 237. $40.00.
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| Six decades and over a thousand books later, American academics still write on the 1942 mass removal and internment of 110,000 West Coast Japanese Americans. Many focus on the relatively small handful of adult American-born Anglophones rather than the larger, Japanese-speaking adult population to anchor their generalizations about the internment experience for the majority. Allan W. Austin follows this well-trodden path but adds another dimension by carefully piecing together the story of the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, which assisted over four-thousand students who moved "from concentration camp to campus," located primarily in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions from 1942 to 1946. |
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