Description
An anthropological investigative project sponsored by various private organizations, the Survey of Race Relations records
include a report, correspondence, interview transcripts, questionnaires, and printed matter relating to the social and economic
status of Chinese, Japanese, other Asian, Mexican, and other minority residents of the Pacific Coast of the United States
and Canada, and to race relations on the Pacific Coast.
Background
In the early 1920s, a group of scholars set out to make an investigation of economic, religious, educational, civic, biological,
and social conditions among Chinese, Japanese, and other non-European residents of the Pacific Coast of the United States
and Canada. Extension of the study into northern Mexico and Hawaii was contemplated as well. The Survey had its administrative
and research headquarters at Stanford University under the chairmanship of President Ray Lyman Wilbur and was under the research
directorship first of Stanford professor Eliot G. Mears and subsequently of the Chicago sociologist, Robert E. Park. The Survey
received important financial support and collaboration from the Institute of Social and Religious Research.
Extent
38 manuscript boxes
(15.2 Linear Feet)
Restrictions
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Availability
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.