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==Community Analysis Section== In February 1943, the WRA established the Community Analysis Section (under the umbrella of the Community Management Division) in order to collect information on the lives of incarcerated Japanese Americans in all ten camps. Employing over twenty cultural anthropologists and social scientists—including [[John Embree]], [[Marvin Opler|Marvin]] and [[Morris Edward Opler|Morris Opler]], [[Margaret Lantis]], [[Edward H. Spicer|Edward Spicer]], and [[Weston La Barre]]—the CAS produced reports on education, community-building and assimilation efforts in the camps, taking data from observations of and interviews with camp residents.<ref name=Hayashi>{{cite web|last=Hayashi |first=Brian Masaru |url=http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Community_analysts |title=Community analysts |publisher=Densho Encyclopedia |access-date=November 13, 2014}}</ref> While some community analysts viewed the Japanese American inmates merely as research subjects, others opposed the incarceration and some of the WRA's policies in their reports, although very few made these criticisms public. Restricted by federal censors and WRA lawyers from publishing their full research from the camps, most of the (relatively few) reports produced by the CAS did not contradict the WRA's official stance that Japanese Americans remained, for the most part, happy behind the barbed wire. Morris Opler did, however, provide a prominent exception, writing two legal briefs challenging the exclusion for the Supreme Court cases of [[Hirabayashi v. United States|Gordon Hirabayashi]] and [[Korematsu v. United States|Fred Korematsu]].<ref name=Hayashi/>
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