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CENSUS BUREAU DEEPLY INVOLVED IN ROUNDUP AND INTERNMENT OF AMERICANS OF
JAPANESE DESCENT ... WWII
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DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU MARCH 15 2000 20:58:01 ET XXXXX
REPORT: CENSUS BUREAU LINKED TO WWII INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE-AMERICANS
The NEW YORK TIMES is reporting in Friday editions that "[two scholars say
in a new research paper that despite earlier denials, the Census Bureau was
deeply involved in the roundup and internment of Japanese-Americans at the onset
of U.S. entry into World War II."
According to TIMES' scribe Steven Holmes, the Census Bureau helped identify
"concentrations of people of Japanese ancestry in geographic units as small
as city blocks."
The bureau is said to have given vital statistics -- including age, sex,
citizenship and country of birth -- on only Japanese-Americans to the War
Department (now known as the Defense Department).
The research paper cited is entitled "After Pearl Harbor: The Proper Role
of Population Data Systems in Time of War" and was written by Margo
Anderson, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee) and
William Seltzer, a statistician and demographer at Fordham University.
It will be released next week in Los Angeles at the annual Population
Association of America meeting.
Japanese-Americans have long suspected that the Census Bureau played a prominent
role in the relocation of 120,000 residents of Japanese ancestry to detention
camps.
Former California congressman Norman Mineta, who spent time in a Wyoming
detention center tells the paper:
"We've always suspected this. After all, they are the keeper of this kind
of information."
Writes Holmes:
"The Census Bureau often boasted that its conduct in the relocation of
Japanese-Americans had been its finest hour because it resisted pressure to
provide explicit data to the War and Justice Departments. But Census Bureau
officials do not dispute the findings of the paper."
Developing...
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