Autor/-in: Forrest LaViolette

FORREST E. LAVIOLETTE was born in North Dakota and grew up where Indians were very much part of the local scene. In his youth he sailed the coast of British Columbia and Alaska on many occasions and made his first acquaintance with the subject of this book. He is a graduate of Reed College and the University of Chicago, and has held teaching appointments at the university of Washington and McGill University. While at McGill he was associated with other Canadian scholars on a Committee on Indian Research assisted by the Social Science Research Council of Canada. His publications include Americans of Japanese Ancestry: A Study of Assimilation in the American Community and The Canadian Japanese and World War II. He is now Professor and Head, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans.