Judgment Without Trial

Tetsuden Kashima is professor of American ethnic studies at the University of Washington.

"The materials contained in this book are extraordinarily valuable. The author, using documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, has uncovered a heretofore hidden dimension of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. His theory of the 'bureaucracy of incarceration' guides the reader through the maze of agencies and personnel who established and maintained thousands of Japanese from 1941 to 1945 and beyond... As a contribution to Asian American studies, ethnic studies, and the sociology of organization, this study is likely to be hailed as a landmark."--Stanford M. Lyman, Morrow Eminent Scholar and Professor of Social Science, Florida Atlantic University "Tetsuden Kashima has fashioned a work that is accessible, absorbing, measured, and suffused with significance. The culmination of years of painstaking and conscientious research and writing, this estimable book is seminal within an already crowded field of study, not merely for what it covers in the way of new data but rather because it situates the subject of the Japanese American Evacuation [JAE] into an analytical framework that is both larger and more meaningful than that extant. It ushers in a new paradigm for the scholarly study and public understanding of the JAE."--Arthur A. Hansen, California State University, Fullerton, and Japanese American National Museum