PREJUDICE: Japanese Americans: Symbol of Racial Intolerance
Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1971. Hardcover. Reprint, with a new foreword by the author. Inscribed and dated by Carey McWilliams on the front flyleaf. Important and influential, this book provides a historical sketch of the Japanese in California drawn largely from secondary materials, and a first-hand description of the attitudes that arose following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the actions taken by the War Relocation Authority after the issuance of Executive Order 9066, which set into motion the removal and imprisonment of 110,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. Octavo: [xiv], 337 p. Original red cloth binding, with gilt titles. The dust jacket is rather sun faded along the spine; else very good. Very good / Very good. Item #76979
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