Now that is a documentation which was certainly scholarly, it was certainly highly skilled and expert, and done on a very selective basis from her experience as a photographer, and yet, she had enough of the human clout, shall we say, in her pictures that I felt that that kind of documentation was even more worthwhile perhaps, than some of the books that came out. Of course I always wish that there would someday be the novel, that no one has come out with yet. And that book would have to include the combination of the careful documentation, careful research plus the terrific tensions, as I say, the static in the atmosphere which can't come out of Caucasian members of a sociology department. They just can't do it. You don't expect it and you shouldn't.
Academia is no place for it to originate, but it has to come out sooner or later.
Both Japanese-Americans and WRA officials like Dillon Myer and Bob Cozzens felt that your work eased their lives and work. Well, as you say, it's an awfully hard thing to put your finger on. In the first place, this type of discrimination was a wartime thing. I mean this particular, not type, but this particular discrimination was a wartime thing. And, the controversies around it were much sharper, more easily defined than are most prejudice situations.