Rosalie H. Wax Papers, 1943-1990

Summary

Creators:

Wax, Rosalie H.

Abstract:

Consists chiefly of a 1981-1982 revision of her Tule Lake field notes, written for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study in 1944-1945, while Wax was at the Relocation Center near Newell, Calif. The revision, funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, includes a first and final draft, plus interviews conducted in 1981-1982 with former internees at Tule Lake, and longitudinal oral histories (Wax's term) created from the field notes and interviews. Additional material includes drafts of an unpublished book, articles and papers based on the revision, correspondence regarding the revision, and miscellaneous writings by internees and other researchers regarding the internment.

Extent:

Number of containers: 10 boxes Linear feet: 4.2

Language:

Collection materials are in English

Background

Scope and content:

The Rosalie H. Wax Papers are built around a 1981-1982 revision, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, of her Tule Lake field notes, written for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study in 1944-1945. The collection contains a final and first draft of the revised field notes, plus interviews conducted in 1981-1982 with former internees at Tule Lake, and longitudinal oral histories (Wax's term) created from the field notes and interviews. Additional material includes drafts of an unpublished book, articles, and papers based on the revision, correspondence regarding the revision, and miscellaneous writings by internees and other researchers regarding the internment.

Rosalie Hankey Wax, Professor of Anthropology and Education at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1973 to 1981, was a staff researcher for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS) at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1943-1945. In June 1943, JERS sent Wax (then Rosalie Hankey) to the Gila Relocation Center at Rivers, Arizona. She was transferred to the Tule Lake Relocation Center near Newell, California, in February 1944 where she spent the next fifteen months. Wax's book, "Doing Fieldwork: Warnings and Advice", published in 1971, uses her experience at Gila and Tule Lake to develop and illustrate her approach to anthropological fieldwork.

Copies of Wax's original field notes and other reports for JERS are included with the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Records(BANC MSS 67/14 c)

Acquisition information:

The Rosalie H. Wax Papers were given to The Bancroft Library by Rosalie Hankey Wax on March 3, 1983. Additions were made by Murray L. Wax on Feb. 7, 1995.

Physical location:

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Rules or conventions:

Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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