Onlooker is important as it represents a dichotomy in American socio-political logic during the Second World War. While interned, Japanese-Americans were offered many of the trappings and services available to them prior to internment. However, the fact remains that they were prisoners. Onlooker is much like any other high school year book, but its myraid faces are those of persons that fell victim to grim circumstance.
Onlooker was the yearbook published by Amache High School students, who attended school at the Grenada Relocation Center (aka Camp Amache) in Colorado. This artifact is a direct result of internment in Colorado and significant to both the state's involvement in the relocation of Japanese-Americans and the country's.
Onlooker is important as it represents a dichotomy in American socio-political logic during the Second World War. While interned, Japanese-Americans were offered many of the trappings and services available to them prior to internment. However, the fact remains that they were prisoners. Onlooker is much like any other high school year book, but its myraid faces are those of persons that fell victim to grim circumstance.
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