In the aftermath of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the
systematic exile and incarceration of thousands of Japanese
Americans, the National Japanese American Student Relocation
Council was born. Created to facilitate the movement of Japanese
American college students from concentration camps to colleges away
from the West Coast, this privately organized and funded agency
helped more than four thousand incarcerated students pursue higher
education at more than six hundred schools during WWII.
Allan W. Austin’ s From Concentration Camp to Campus examines the
Council's work and the challenges it faced in an atmosphere of
pervasive wartime racism. Austin also reveals the voices of
students as they worked to construct their own meaning for wartime
experiences under pressure of forced and total assimilation. Austin
argues that the resettled students succeeded in reintegrating
themselves into the wider American society without sacrificing
their connections to community and their Japanese cultural
heritage.
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