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Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2008.026

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

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