William C. Smith papers
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William Carlson Smith (1883-?), educator and sociologist, contributed major research to the Survey of Race Relations, a 1925 study of economic, legal and social relations between whites and Asians on the Pacific Coast and in Hawaii. The William C. Smith...
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- William C. Smith papers
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- William Carlson Smith (1883-?), educator and sociologist, contributed major research to the Survey of Race Relations, a 1925 study of economic, legal and social relations between whites and Asians on the Pacific Coast and in Hawaii. The William C. Smith papers, (1924-1927) are the documents assembled by Smith and Robert Ezra Park for a survey of race relations on the Pacific Coast and in Hawaii, 1924-1927, and used by Smith in Americans in the Making. The documents consist of interviews with and autobiographies of Japanese, Chinese, Mexican, and other immigrants and first-generation Americans. Most of the autobiographies were written by school children in California and Hawaii. There are also copies of official letters and published items concerning race relations.
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- 1924/1927
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