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Keeper of concentration camps : Dillon S. Myer and American racism / Richard Drinnon.

Title
  1. Keeper of concentration camps : Dillon S. Myer and American racism / Richard Drinnon.
Published by
  1. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1987.
Author
  1. Drinnon, Richard

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  1. Mazal Holocaust Collection TxSaTAM
  2. Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Description
  1. xxviii, 339 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Myer, Dillon S. 1891-1982
  2. Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  3. Since 1900
  4. Geschichte 1942-1945
  5. Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
  6. Indians of North America > Government relations > 1934-
  7. Racism > United States > History > 20th century
  8. United States > Officials and employees > Biography
Genre/Form
  1. Biographies
  2. History
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 271-324.
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