Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi Papers
Scope and Contents
The Nishi Papers include drafts of Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi’s paper entitled “Recovery and Hidden Injuries: Wartime Incarceration and Japanese American Lives.”
Dates
- 2008
Biographical / Historical
Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi, Ph.D., (1921-2012) Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, was born in Los Angeles, California. She was a junior at University of Southern California when Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941 and she, along with her other family members, was sent to Santa Anita Assembly Center shortly thereafter. Setsuko obtained permission to leave Santa Anita in order to continue her academic studies at a university in the Midwest. No accession or donor information on file.
Source: Nishi, Setsuko Matsunaga
Extent
1 folders
Language of Materials
English
General
Stacks 02 Column 08 Shelf A
- Title
- Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi Papers
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the JASC Legacy Center Repository