The Spoilage: Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1946. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Contributions By Rosalie A. Hankey, James M. Sakoda, Morton Grodzins, Frank Miyamoto. Text includes a twenty-page preface, an appendix, footnotes, and an index, illustrated with various photographs and charts, compiled by sociologist Dorothy S. Thomas and Japanese-American evacuee Richad S. Nishimoto. Octavo. 388pp. Illustrated. Red cloth gilt. Small gift inscription, else about fine in slightly spine-toned near fine dust jacket with tiny nicks and tears, and a small label placed over the original price. This copy Signed by both of the co-authors. A scholarly documentation of the Japanese internment, written by a sociologist and a Japanese-American evacuee, with additional contributions.

A statement from the publisher notes: "No more blatant violation of civil rights has ever been decreed by an American president, yet so strong were the currents of bigotry and war time hysteria that effective political opposition was impossible. However, a group of University of California social scientists, sensing the enormity of the outrage, organized in 1942 to record and analyze the causes, legal and social consequences, and long-term effects of the detention program." Very uncommon.