America's Concentration Camps During World War II, Social Science and the Japanese American Internment

To date, no radical critique has been made of the role social scientists played in Japanese American internment camps during the Second World War. In fact, while social scientific theories of the time were used to study and interpret the behavior of a population living under great stress, they served at the same time to stifle rebellion and to reduce interners to mere objects of scientific inquiry. In this groundbreaking study, Francis Feeley shows how theories of industrial relations and labor control informed social science studioes in these camps and contributed to a growing "body of knowledge" for social control. A seminal work highly recommended for graduate students in political science, history, or American Studies, who are interested in the on-going debate over Multiculturaism in the United States and, by implication, throughout the modern world. Professor Feeley's research makes a serious contribution to our understanding of the historic problems faced by Japanese Americans at the time of the Second World War.