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Letter from Aitken to Seabrook . Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3MW2K7K

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TitleLetter from Aitken to Seabrook
NameAitken, Bertram R. B. (Correspondent), Seabrook, Charles F. (Correspondent)
Date Created1944-05-06
SubjectJapanese Americans
DescriptionThis letter, from Bridgeton Mayor Bertram F. Aitken to C.F. Seabrook, discusses why town officials preferred relocated Japanese Americans to “the undesirable southern Negro labor.” Racist stereotypes - the laziness of black workers, the docility of Asian Americans - surrounded the relocation of Japanese Americans and cast them simultaneously as both “model minorities” and alleged security threats.
Genrecorrespondence
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3MW2K7K
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSeabrook Farms
Organization NameSeabrook Educational and Cultural Center
Organization NameRutgers University. Libraries
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