Roger Daniels, Prisoners without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004).
Children of the Camps, directed by Stephen Holsapple, 1999.
Structure of the essay:
Write short, concise paragraphs. Please use the following subheadings in the body of your paper.
a. Major issues or problems (about half a page). In this section you should sum up the book and identify what issues and problems the author wishes to analyze. What specific questions are being raised?
b. Author’s thesis (two or three sentences). What is his/her main hypothesis? What arguments does the author intend to make in the book?
c. Data or evidence offered (one paragraph). Now that you have summarized the author’s argument, what kinds of evidence does she or he use to back it up? What are the data sources and how were they gathered?
d. Author’s conclusion(s) (about half a page). What conclusions does the author reach? Based on the author’s data and arguments, are those conclusions justified? What do we know now that we did not know before? What are the implications for theory building and future research?
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