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Remembering Roger Daniels
The first book I read about Japanese American history was Roger Daniels’ book, “The Politics of Prejudice.” It was 1966, and in my research as a college freshman, it was the rare book on Japanese American history, one that began Roger’s long and illustrious career as a historian documenting the story of Japanese Americans and the wartime incarceration. Over the next half century, Roger’s scholarship was the bedrock of Japanese American historical research.
It wasn’t until February 2010 that we met, at a 3-day Tule Lake planning meeting in Oakland, organize…
