| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.4

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Book Review

Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment. By Brian Masaru Hayashi. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xviii + 319 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $35.00.)

Although many books have examined the mass relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, Hayashi's ambitious effort makes available much new archival data and presents original and provocative interpretations. He analyzes the internment from the perspectives of three key players: administrators, social scientists, and the internees. In addition, he focuses on three of the War Relocation Authority (WRA) camps: Manzanar, Topaz, and Poston. He convincingly justifies this selection, but sometimes one wishes that an explicit comparison with what became the Tule Lake Segregation Center was made. Hayashi does frequently discuss data from all ten WRA camps. Another strength of Democratizing the Enemy is that the book, consistent with other recent scholarship, emphasizes the importance of the international context in the creation of the camps, treatment of the internees, and the way internees viewed their situation.

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