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Japanese American Youth In Topaz Relocation Center, Utah: An Oral History, Akiko J. Tohmatsu

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This project examines Japanese American youth in Topaz High School, a school set up in a War Relocation Center during 1942 to 1945. It looks at what students were taught there, as well as what they felt, thought, heard, and saw.

Oral histories collected from Japanese American former internees constitute the main methodology. An oral history enables us to know the feelings and emotions involved in evacuation at the same time as it provides us with more human insight, such as human perspectives and personal reminiscences, which are not available in historical, social, or political accounts.

Findings of this project …