This guide is organized into two sections:
Japanese Americans
Discrimination Against Other Ethnic
Groups
Adams, Ansel. Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal
Japanese Americans, Manzanar Relocation Center, Inyo County,
California. Bishop, CA: Spotted Dog Press, 2002. D769.8.A6.A28
2002 Text and photographs by Ansel Adams. Based
on the book by U.S. Camera.
Adams, Ansel. Manzanar. New York: Times Books, 1988.
Photographs by Ansel Adams, with commentary by John Hersey,
of the War Relocation Center at Manzanar, CA. D769.8.A6.A63
1988.
Arrington, Leonard J. The Price Of Prejudice: The Japanese-American Relocation
Center In Utah During World War II. 2nd ed. Delta, Utah: Topaz Museum,
1997. Originally published in 1962 by Utah State University. Second edition
contains 85 historic photographs and an afterward by Jane Beckwith not found
in original edition. D769.8.A6.A77 1997.
Asahina, Robert. Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad: The Story of the 100th Battalion/442d Regimental Combat Team in World War II. New York: Gotham, 2006. D753.8.A83 2006.
Austin, Allan W. From Concentration Camp to Campus: Japanese American Students and World War II. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. D769.8.A6.A94 2004
Burton, Jeffery F. Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of WWII Japanese
American Relocation Sites. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. D769.8.A6.C57
2002
Christgau, John. "Enemies": World War II Alien Internment.
Ames, IA : Iowa State University Press, 1985. Concerns the prisoners and concentration
camps in the United States during World War II. D769.8.A6.C5 1985.
Chuman, Frank F. The Bamboo People: The Law and Japanese Americans.
Del Mar, CA : Publisher’s Inc., 1976. A legal history of people of Japanese
ancestry in America including coverage of the confinement of Japanese Americans
in internment camps during World War II. KF4846 C5.
Collins, Donald E. Native American Aliens: Disloyalty and the Renunciation
Of Citizenship By Japanese Americans During World War II. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1985. Discusses the legal aspects and civil rights of Japanese
Americans that were placed in internment camps. KF7224.5.C64 1985.
Cooper, Michael L. Fighting for Honor: Japanese Americans and World War
II. New York: Clarion Books, 2000. "Examines the history
of Japanese in the United States, focusing on their treatment during World
War II, including the mass relocation to internment camps and the distinguished
service of Japanese Americans in the American military." D769.8.A6.C66
2000.
Cooper, Michael L. Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation
Camp. New York: Clarion Books, 2002. "...Thoughtful examination of
this shameful chapter in American history reveals the remarkable bravery and
resilience of the camp's residents as they tried to lead normal lives --playing
baseball, attending Saturday night dances, and publishing their own newspaper." D769.8.A6.C67
2002.
Crost, Lyn. Honor By Fire: Japanese Americans At War In Europe And The
Pacific. Novato, CA : Presidio, 1994. D753.8.C76 1994.
Daniels, Roger. Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States
since 1850. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1988. E184.O6.D36
1988.
Daniels, Roger. Concentration Camps, North America : Japanese in the United
States and During World War II. Malabar, FL: R. E. Krieger, 1981. About
concentration camps in the USA. Reprint of the 1971. D769.8 A6 D35
1981.
Daniels, Roger. Prisoners without Trial: Japanese Americans
in World War II. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. "An
outstanding resource that provides a clear and concise history
of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World
War II." D769.8.A6.D37 2004
Dempster, Brian Komei. From Our Side of the Fence: Growing Up in America's
Concentration Camps. Prod. by Japanese Cultural & Community Center
of Northern California. San Francisco, CA: Kearny Street Workshop, 2001. D769.8.A6.F76
2001
De Nevers, Klancy C. The Colonel and the Pacifist: Karl Bendetsen, Perry
Saito, and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Salt
Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004. "Contrasts the stories of the
two men, both from Aberdeen, Washington. Bendetsen, a lawyer called up from
the reserves, was a force behind the order to intern Japanese aliens and their
American children, then was promoted and assigned to head the evacuation and
detention. Saito, one of those American-born, was 20 in 1941, and confirmed
pacifist, and pursuing a degree in music education." D769.8.A6.D44
2004
DiStasi, Lawrence. Una Storia: The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation
and Internment during World War II. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2001. Presents "a
group of potent and moving essays personal narratives of [Italian] ancestors
and others who were detained, arrested, evacuated or who just disappeared and
some more scholarly examinations of our government's treatment of the more
than half a million Italian immigrants many of them naturalized U.S. citizens
whose lives were turned upside down". D769.8.A6.W35 2001
Due Process: Americans Of Japanese Ancestry and the United States Constitution,
1787-1994. San Francisco, CA: National Japanese American Historical Society,
1995. E184.J3.D83 1995.
DuBois, Ellen Carol, and Vicki L. Ruiz, eds. Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural
Reader in U.S. Women's History. New York: Routledge, 1990. Chapter 25:
Dialectics of Wage Work: Japanese-American Women and Domestic Service, 1905-1940.
Chapter 26: Japanese American Women during World War II. HQ1410.U54
1990
Duus, Masayo. Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd .
Trans. Peter Duus. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987. D753.8.D8813
1987.
Gesensway, Deborah. Beyond Words : Images From America’s Concentration
Camps. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987. About the relocation
and internment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War
II. D805.U5.G47 1987.
Girdner, Audrie. The Great Betrayal : The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans
During World War II. New York: Macmillan, 1969. Civil rights violations
of the civilian evacuees during World War II. D769.8.A6.G5.
Hansen, Arthur A., ed. Japanese American World War II Evacution Oral History
Project: Part I: Internees. Westport: Meckler, 1991. Oral histories collected
from interviews with Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in the concentration
camps. An index included after each interview. D769.8.A6.J363 v. 1.
Hansen, Arthur A., ed. Japanese American World War II Evacution Oral History
Project: Part II: Administrators. Westport: Meckler, 1991. Oral histories
collected from interviews with the personnel in charge of the camps. An index
included after each interview. D769.8.A6.J363 v. 2.
Harris, Catherine Embree. Dusty Exile: Looking Back at Japanese Relocation
during World War II. Honolulu, HA: Mutual Publishing, 1999. "...The
attitudes of those Americans who administered or worked in [the camps] are
rarely the focus of relocation literature. ... Harris's memoir offers a very
personal 'report from the camps' about what it was like from the other side
as a teacher in one of them.." D769.8.A6.H365 1999.
Harth, Erica, ed. Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment
of Japanese Americans. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2001. Personal narratives
and biography from "former internees ... and children of detainees and
of camp officials [who] join with others in challenging readers to construct
a better future by confronting this dark episode from America's World War II
scrapbook." D769.8.A6.L37 2001
Hatamiya, Leslie T. Righting A Wrong: Japanese Americans and the Passage
of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. Stanford, CA: Stanford University
Press, 1993. The successful attempt by Japanese Americans to secure a formal
apology from the U.S. government for the evacuation and relocation of Japanese
Americans during World War II, and a token reparations payment for loss of
homes, businesses, property, education, etc. D769.8 A6 H38 1993.
Hibi, Hisako. Peaceful Painter: Memoirs of an Issei Woman Artist. Berkeley,
CA: Heyday Books, 2004. Historical overview and recollections on American freedom;
hometown: Hayward, California; Tanforan Assembly Center; Topaz, Utah, Relocation
Center; relocation to New York City (30 paintings by Hibi); and return to San
Francisco. ND237.H5744.A2 2004.
Higa, Karin M. The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment
Camps, 1942-1945. [Los Angeles, CA]: Japanese American National Museum,
1992. Prisoners of war as artists, exhibitions: Wight Art Gallery, October
13 through December 6, 1992. N6538.J3.V54 1992.
Higashide, Seiichi. Adios to Tears: The Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian
Internee in U.S. Concentration Camps. Seattle: University of Washington
Press, 2000. E184.J3 H525 2000
Hing, Bill Ong. Making and Remaking Asian America Through
Immigration Policy, 1850-1990. Stanford, CA: Stanford
UP, 1993. The author analyzes how U.S. immigration polices
and laws have shaped Asian American communities demographically,
economically, and socially. The interment of Japanese Americans
is discussed, as well as favorable and hostile responses
to Japanese Americans. See the index under "Japanese
immigrants" for page references. JV6493.H5 1993
Hirasuna, Delphine. The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2005. "A photographic collection of arts and crafts made in the Japanese American internment camps during World War II, along with a historical overview of the camps." NK839.3 .J32 H57 2005
Hirohata, Joyce, and Paul T. Hirohata. Nisei Voices: Japanese American
Students of the 1930s - Then & Now. Oakland, CA: Hirohata Design,
2004. "Many books document the Japanese American experience, but none
provide the personal perspective of speeches from the 1930s, tempered with
contemporary recollections of the students who gave them so long ago." F870.J3.N58
2004
Hosokawa, Bill. Nisei: the Quiet Americans. NY: William Morrow, 1969. E184.J3
H6
Hosokawa, Bill. Out of the Frying Pan: Relections of a Japanese American.
Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1998. This story illustrates the Japanese
American struggle to overcome prejudice and restore ethnic pride. E184.J3
H622 1998.
Hosokawa, Bill, ed., et al. Patriotism, Perserverance, Posterity: The Story
of the National Japanese American Memorial. Washington, DC: National Japanese
American Memorial Foundation, 2001. D753.8.P38 2001
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki. Farewell To Manzanar: A True Story Of Japanese
American Experience During And After The World War II Internment. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1973. The personal experiences of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
during her evacuation, relocation and internment in the concentration camp
at Manzanar, CA. E184 J3 H63.
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki. Farewell to Manzanar: and Related Readings. Evanston,
IL: McDougal Littell, 1998. E184.J3.H633 1998. Contents:
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston.
Two poems from Legends from Camp: The Legend of Superman & The Legend of Home by Lawson Fusao Inada.
Sleep in the Mojave Desert, a poem by Sylvia Plath.
I Remember Pearl Harbor: Dealing with the "Problem Race," an essay by Charles Shiro Inouye.
Wilshire Bus, a short story by Hisaye Yamamoto.
Trains at Night, a short story by Alberto Alvaro Ríos.
Visiting Home, a poem by Kevin Young.
Selection from Unto the Sons, a memoir by Gay Talese.
Lectures on How You Never Lived Back Home, a short story by M. Evelina Galang.
Ichioka, Yuji. Views from Within: The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement
Study. Los Angeles: Resource Development and Publications, Asian American
Studies Center, University of California at Los Angeles, 1989. Japanese Americans
were confined in concentration camps … "under the scrutiny of University
of California social scientists. Their work raised serious professional and ethical
issues that remain alive. The greatest virtue of this book is the wide range
of perspectives — from both participants in the project and subjects — it
provides." D769.8.A6.V53 1989
Inada, Lawson Fusao. Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment
Experience. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2000. D769.8.A6.O55 2000.
Inouye, Mamoru. The Heart Mountain Story: Photographs by Hansel Mieth and
Otto Hagel of the World War II Internment of Japanese Americans. Los Gatos,
CA: Mamoru Inouye., 1997. D769.8.A6.I56 1997.
Iritani, Frank and Joanne. Ten Visits: Brief Accounts of Our Visits to All
Ten Japanese American Relocation Centers of World War II, Internee and Non-Internee
Recollections, Struggle for Redress, Internment of Other Groups, Our Non-Nikkei
Friends, and Other Essays. Valencia, CA: Japanese American National Museum,
1999. D769.8.A6.I68 1999.
Irons, Peter H. Justice At War. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1993. A look at the breakdown in the American legal system which allowed Japanese
American citizens to be imprisoned without trials during World War II. KF7224.5
I76 1993.
Jacoby, Harold S. Tule Lake: From Relocation to Segregation. Grass Valley,
CA: Comstock Bonanza Press, 1996. The author was a WRA staff member at Tule Lake
Relocation Center and provides the reader with a more complete and accurate understanding
of what took place in the centers during those regrettable years. D769.8.A6.J33
1996
James, Thomas. Exile Within : The Schooling of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945.
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1987. D769.8.A6.J345 1987.
Japanese Relocation in the American West. Manhattan, KS: Journal of
the West, April 1999. An issue of a journal covering: Life in America's Concentration
Camps; One State's Reaction to Wartime Internment; Letters from Camp: Poston
- the First Year; Health Care at the Central Utah (Topaz) Relocation Center;
The Evacuation and Resettlement Study at the Gila River Relocation Center, 1942-1944;
Heart Mountain High School, 1942-1945; The Children's Village at Manzanar: The
World War II Eviction and Detention of Japanese American Orphans. D769.8.A6.J37
1999.
Kaku, Michio. "Behind Barbed Wire: The Wartime Incarceration of the Japanese-Americans." To Be a Victim: Encounters with Crime and Injustice. Eds. Diane Sank and David I. Caplan. New York: Insight Books, 1991. HV6250.25.T6 1991.
Kashima, Tetsuden. Judgment without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment
during World War II. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. "...Reveals
that long before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harabor, the U.S. government began
making plans for the eventual internment and later incarceration of the Japanese
American population. Discusses the less familiar and very different experiences
of people of Japanese descent in the Justice and War Departments' internment
camps that held internees from the continental U.S. and from Alska, Hawaii,
and Latin America." D769.8.A6.K37 2003 (2 copies)
Kikumura, Akemi, and Michiko Tanaka. Through Harsh Winters: The Life of
a Japanese Immigrant Woman. Novato, CA: Chandler & Sharp, 1981. The
moving story of the Michiko Tanaka's mother, "...whose spirit and courage
enabled her to triumph over the hardship, loneliness, and despair familiar
to all immigrants." F869.L5 T366.
Kikumura, Akemi. Promises Kept: The Life of an Issei Man. Novato,
CA: Chandler and Sharp Publishers, 1991. The story of Through Harsh Winters continued "...as
the wife and children of the author's [Tanaka] father, Saburo, recall different
parts of his past and the inner turmoil that beset him much of his life." E184.J3.K46
1991 .
Kikuchi, Charles. The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle from an American Concentration
Camp - The Tanforan Journals of Charles Kikuchi. Urbana, IL: University
of Illinois Press, 1973. Personal biography of Charles Kikuchi and his experience
at the Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, CA), before being sent off to an
American concentration camp. D769.8.A6.K54.
Kim, Kristine. Henry Sugimoto: Painting an American Experience. Berkelely:
Heyday Books, 2000. "...Looks at Sugimoto's art and life during his early
years in California, Paris, and Mexico; at the transformative impact of the
World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans..." ND237.S84.A4
2000
Kitano, Harry H. L. Race Relations. 4th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice Hall, 1991. Includes a chapter on Japanese Americans with information
on Issei, Nisei, World War II evacuation, 442nd Combat Team and the 100th Battalion,
racism and prejudice towards Japanese Americans. E184.A1.K47 1991.
Kitano, Harry H. L. The Japanese Americans: The Immigrant Experience. 2nd
ed. New York: Chelsea House, 1995. E184.J3.K498 1995.
Knaefler, Tomi Kaizawa. Our House Divided: Seven Japanese American Families
in World War II. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. D753.8
K57 1991
Laskas, Jeanne Marie. "Tomie Ito: A Prisoner in Her Own Land." We
Remember: Women Born at the Turn of the Century Tell the Stories of Their Lives
in Words and Pictures. New York: William Morrow, 1999. CT3260.L37
1999
Lee-Tai, Amy. A Place Where Sunflowers Grow = Sabaku ni saita himawari. San Francisco, Ca: Children's Book Press, 2006. "While she and her family are interned at Topaz Relocation Center during World War II, Mari gradually adjusts as she enrolls in an art class, makes a friend, plants sunflowers and waits for them to grow." PZ49.31.L44 2006.
Mackey, Mike. Guilt by Association: Essays on Japanese Settlement, Internment,
and Relocation in the Rocky Mountain West. Powell, WY: Western History
Publications, 2001. ...A collection of essays looking at various aspects of
Japanese settlement, confinement to internment camps, and relocation experiences.
The twelve essays were contributed by some of the top researchers in the field
of Japanese American history. D769.8.A6.G85 2001
Mackey, Mike. Remembering Heart Mountain: Essays on Japanese American Internment
in Wyoming. Powell, WY: Western History Publications, 1998. D769.8.A6.R46
1998
Maeda, Wayne. Changing Dreams and Treasured Memories: A Story of Japanese
Americans in the Sacramento Region. Sacramento, CA: Sacramento Japanese
American Citizens League, 2000. Traces the history of the early settlers, agricultural
involvement, Sacramento's Japantown, the Nisei, and internment of the Japanese
in the Sacramento region after World War I. Sports, including baseball, sumo,
kendo, basketball and many others, are discussed. F869.S12.M33 2000.
Maki, Michell T., Harry H. Kitano, and S. Megan Berthold. Achieving the
Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress. Urbana, IL:
University of Illinois Press. "Nearly fifty years after being incarcerated
by their own government, Japanese American concentration camp survivors succeeded
in obtaining redress for the personal humiliation, family dislocation, and
economic ruin caused by their ordeal." D769.8.A6.M29 1999.
Manzanar Committee. Reflections in Three Self-Guided Tours of Manzanar.
Los Angeles: Manzanar Committee, 1998. F868.M2 M2 1998.
Matsumoto, Valerie J. Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community
in California. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993. The author"...presents
a vivid account of three generations of women and men in a Japanese American
farming community. Bringing to light the dynamic forces that shaped Cortez
Colony from its founding [San Joaquin Valley] through 1982, she shows how the
choice to cultivate ethnic community reflects shifting needs, as well as shared
history" from a feminist point of view. F869.C815.M38 1993.
Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us. Illustrated by Dom Lee. New York:
Lee & Low, 1993. Children's story: "A Japanese American boy learns
to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment
camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is
over." PZ7.M71284.BAS 1993
Muller, Eric L. Free To Die For Their Country: The Story of the Japanese
American Draft Resisters in World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2001. D810.C82.M85 2001
Moulin, Pierre. U.S. Samurais in Bruyeres : People of France and Japanese
Americans - Incredible Story. France: Peace & Freedom Trail, 1993. D753.8
M68 1993
Nagata, Donna K. Legacy of Injustice: Exploring the Cross-Generational
Impact of the Japanese American Internment. New York: Plenum Press,
1993. E184.O6.D36 1988.
Nakagawa, Kerry Yo. Through a Diamond: 100 Years of Japanese American Baseball. San
Francisco: Rudi Publishing, Inc., 2002. "...Far more than a history of
the experience of Japanese American baseball. It is a compassionate description
of the immigrant experience of the Japanese people as seen through the prism
of American's grand game of baseball." GV863.A1.N34 2001
Nakano, Mei, and Grace Shibata. Japanese American Women: Three Generations,
1890-1990. Berkeley, CA: Mina Press, 1990. E184.J3.N35 1990
Nakayamal, Thomas, ed. Transforming Barbed Wire: The Incarceration of Japanese
Americans in Arizona during World War II. Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Humanities
Council, 1997. A multiformat project with public presentations at various sites
in the fall, winter, and spring of 1997-98. D769.8A6 N42 1997.
Niiya, Brian, ed. Japanese American History: An A-to-Z Reference from 1868
to the Present. NY: Facts on File, 1993. E184.J3.J3355 1993.
Niiya, Brian. More Than a Game: Sport in the Japanese American Community. Los
Angeles, CA: Japanese American National Museum, 2000. "...Provides new
ways of exploring America's multicultural and multiethnic heritage through
the study of Japanese American sports." GV583.M67 2000
Nishimoto, Richard S. Inside an American Concentration Camp: Japanese American
Resistance at Poston, Arizona. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995. D769.8.A6.N57
1995
Obata, Chiura. Topaz Moon: Art of the Internment. Berkeley, CA: Heyday
Books, 2000. "...more than 100 of Obata's sketches, sumi paintings, and
watercolors from the Internment period." N6537.O22 A2 2000.
Odo, Franklin. No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawaii during World
War II. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. "When bombs
rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were
among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and immediately called upon to defend
the Hawaiian islands against invasion. In a few weeks, however, the military
government questioned their loyalty and disarmed them." D753.8.O36
2004
Okada, John. No-No Boy. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1976.
Effective and moving novel about the plight of Japanese-American citizens in
the immediate aftermath of World War II. PS3565.K33.N6 1979 c.2.
Okazaki, Suzie. Nihonmachi: A Story of San Francisco's Japantown.
San Francisco, CA: SKO Studios, 1985. San Franciscan Japanese-American "...lives
in America [are] symbolic of the many immigrants of various ethnic backgrounds
who came and contributed their rich heritages to the history of America." A
chapter on dispersal and confinement is included. F869.S39.J36 1985.
Okihiro, Gary Y. The Columbia Guide to Asian American History. New
York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Part 2, Chapter 5: America's Concentration
Camps (page 100) and Part 3, Chapter 4: Japanese American Resistance (page
164). E184.O6.C64 2001.
Okihiro, Gary Y. Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and
Culture. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994. Small sections
of this book discuss "yellow peril", military preparation in Hawaii,
and draft resistence at the Heart Mountain Camp. See index under "apanese
Americans" for more information. E184.06 038 1994.
Okihiro, Gary Y. Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War
II. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. "During World
War II over 5,500 young Japanese Americans left the concentration camps to
which they had been confined with their families in order to attend college." D753.8.O38
1999.
Okihiro, Gary Y. Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II. Photographs
by Joan Myers. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. Tells the story
of the camps from the reminiscences of former internees, with photographs from
all ten of the camps as they appear today and of items left behind in them
- barracks steps, guard tower footings, cemeteries, dried up ponds and rock
work from abandoned gardens, and children's toys. D769.8.A6.O36 1996.
Oppenheim, Joanne. Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration during World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference. New York : Scholastic, 2006. D769.8.A6.O67 2006.
Our World, 1943-1944, Manzanar High. Manzanar, CA: Manzanar High School,
1944. [Logan, UT: Herff Jones Yearbook company, 1998]. High school year book. D769.8.A6.O77
1998.
Pak, Yoon K. Wherever I Go, I Will Always Be a Loyal American: Schooling
Seattle's Japanese Americans during World War II. New York: Routledge
Falmer, 2002. LC3175.S43.P35 2002
Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation
Internment of Civilians. Washington, DC: GPO, 1983. Formal government
report on the evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans during World
War II. D769.8.A6.P47 1983.
Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation
Internment of Civilians. With a New Foreword by Tetsuden Kashima. Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 1997. Formal government report on the evacuation
and relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II. D769.8.A6.U39
1997.
Robinson, Greg. By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese
Americans. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. D769.8.A6.R63
2001
Robinson, Gerald H. Elusive Truth: Four Photographers at Manzanar. Nevada
City, CA: Carl Mautz Publishing, 2002. "...Ansel Adams, Dorothea
Lange, Clem Albers and Toyo Miyatake photographed Manzanar and its residents
at various times throughout its three year existence. Their photographs tell
the story of Manzanar from four different perspectives ... a cautionary and
poignant tale of pain, injustice, and the triumph of the human spirit." D769.8.A6.E48
2002
Schweik, Susan. "A Needle with Mama's Voice: Mitsuye Yamada's Camp
Notes and the American Canon of War Poetry." Arms and the Woman:
War, Gender, and Literary Representation. Eds. Helen M. Cooper, Adrienne
A. Munich, and Susan M. Squier. Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of North Caroline Pr.,
1989. "This essay focuses on one group of poems written by one Japanese-American
woman, a body of work that reflects the shaping forces of the camp and relocation
experience.... The poems that make up the central section ... were written
in part during or not long after the war." PN98.W64.A76 1989.
Second Kinenhi, Reflections on Tule Lake. San Francisco, CA: Tule
Lake Committee, 2000. Personal narrative. D769.8.A6.K55 2000.
Smith, Page. Democracy on Trial: The Japanese American Evacuation and Relocation
in World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. About the evacuation
and relocation, and the civil rights of Japanese American prisoners. D769.8
A6 S64 1995.
Stanley, Jerry. I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment. New
York: Crown, 1994. Illustrated with photographs. D769.8.A6.S73 1994.
Takaki, Ronald. Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World
War II. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2000. Tells the stories of
the "Americans of "varied" races and ethnicities ... [who] went
to war not only for victory over fascism abroad but also for victory over prejudice
at home." D769.T42 2000.
Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. Boston:
Little, Brown and Company, 1989. One chapter is titled "The Watershed
of World War II," which includes a section on "The Myth of 'Military
Necessity' for Japanese-American Internment." D184.O6.T35 1989
Tamura, Eileen H. Americanization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity:
The Nisei Generation in Hawaii. Chicago: University of Illinois Press,
1994. "...Analyzes Hawaii's organized effort to force the Nisei to adopt
'American' ways, ... the older generation attempting to maintain Japanese cultural
ways and the younger wishing to become 'true Americans.'" DU624.7.J3.T36
1994.
Tateishi, John, ed. And Justice For All: An Oral History of the Japanese
American Detention Camps. New York: Random House, 1984. Personal narratives
of Japanese Americans on their experience in the detention camps. D769.8.A6.A67
1984.
Taylor, Sandra C. Jewel of the Desert: Japanese American Internment at
Topaz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. A community history
of relocation and its aftermath: "It is the only in-depth, narratiave
history of both an assembly center and a concentration camp. [Taylor] gives
voice to Japanese Americans through the oral histories woven throughout the
text [and] seeks to describe the Topaz community in its totality." D769.8.A6.T39
1993
Tunnell, Michael O. The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American
Internment Camp: Based on a Classroom Diary. New York: Holiday House,
1996. Presents the diary of a third-grade class of Japanese-American children
being held with their families in an internment camp during World War II. D769.8.A6.T86
1996
Uchida, Yoshiko. Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982. Personal narratives of Japanese
Americans in California during the evacuation, relocation and internment of
the Japanese Americans in Concentration camps. D769.8 A6 U25 1982.
Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey Home. New York: Aladdin Books, 1992. A "...
story of one family's struggle to survive one the most tragic episodes in U.S.
history." PZ7.U25jn 1992.
Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey to Topaz. New York: Scribner, [1971]. A
family endures "...the tragic upheaval of the evacuation with dignity,
quiet courage, and loyalty." PZ7.U25jo.
Uchida, Yoshiko. Picture Bride: A Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster,
1988. PS3571.C247.P5 1988. "...Rare insight into
the hearts and minds of Japanese immigrant women and the important role they
played in the establishment and survival of ethnic family and community life
in America."
Van Valkenburg, Carol Bulger. An Alien Place: The Fort Missoula, Montana,
Detention Camp, 1941-1944. Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Pub., 1995. "The
story of both the Italians and Japanese who were brought to Fort Missoula during
World War II. The Italians were mostly crew members from impounded merchant
ships docked in US ports. The Japanese, for the most part, were the leaders
of Japanese community in America detained over the course of the war. It is
a story about these men: who they were, how their lives took this peculiar
turn, and how the tranquil town of Missoula, became for some a shelter, and
for others, a painful interlude in lives turned inside out by the events of
a world war." D805.U5.V36 1995.
Wegars, Priscilla. "A Real He-Man's Job:" Japanese Internees
and the Kooskia Internment Camp, Idaho, 1943-1945. Moscow, ID: University
of Idaho, 30 June 1998. "…Most of these all-male, paid volunteers
were construction workers for the present Highway 12 between Lewiston, Idaho
and Lolo, Montana, parallel to the wild and scenic Lochsa River. 'Digging
in the documents … combined with internee and employee oral and written
interviews, illuminate the internees' experiences, emphasizing the perspectives
of the men detained at the Kooskia Internment Camp." D769.8.A6.W427
1998.
Weglyn, Michi. Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration
Camps. New York: Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1980. What happened to the Japanese
Americans who were put into concentration camps during World War II. D769.8.A6
W43 1980.
Wels, Susan. Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941: America's Darkest Day. San
Diego, CA: Time Life Books, 2001. Wonderfully illustrated, maps, narrative,
and introduction by Senator Daniel K. Inouye which "...recounts his personal
experiences during the attack and the effect they had on him fromthat day forward." D767.92.W46
2001
Wong, Diane Yen-Mei, ed. Generations: A Japanese American Community Portrait. [San
Francisco, CA]: Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California,
2000. This is a " ...photographic essay about Japantown's history and
future," which includes a chapter titled "Evacuation." D769.8.A6.G46
2000
"World War II Internment of Japanese Americans." Asian Americans:
Opposing Viewpoints. Eds. David Bender, et al. San Diego: Greenhaven Press,
1997. "The viewpoints in this chapter examine arguments about whether
the Japanese internment was justified as well as controversies within the Japanese
American community on whether or not to cooperate with the U.S. government before
and during detention." E184.O6.A8445 1997.
Wu, Frank H. Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White. New York,
NY: Basic Books, 2001. Wu's description of the alienation faced by Asian Americans
tackles key milestones in history, such as the 1940s interment camps ..., as
well as surprising statistics about the continuing prevalence of anti-Asian
sentitment. Use the index to find Japanese Americans and internment, especially
pages 95 through 103 covering the war-time attitudes and proganda concerning
Japanese Americans. E184.O6.W84 2001
Yancey, Diane. Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp: The Way People
Live. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1998. "Discusses the course of
Japanese immigration into the Unitd States, events leading to the relocation
of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the conditions they faced in
the internment camps." D769.8.A6.Y36 1998
Yoshida, George. Reminiscing in Swingtime: 1925-1960. San Francisco,
CA: National Japanese American Historical Society, 1997. Chapter 3: Of Jive
Bombers and Stardusters: Dance Bands in "Assembly" Centers & Detention
Camps. "These are the voices, this is the song, as never before made public,
of the enduring people that managed, on sheer strength and spirit, to make
beautiful music even in the forbidding barrens of American concentrations camps." ML3560.J3.Y67
1997
Daniels, Roger. Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States
since 1850. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1988. E184.O6.D36
1988.
DiStasi, Lawrence. Una Storia: The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation
and Internment during World War II. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2001. Presents "a
group of potent and moving essays personal narratives of [Italian] ancestors
and others who were detained, arrested, evacuated or who just disappeared and
some more scholarly examinations of our government's treatment of the more
than half a million Italian immigrants many of them naturalized U.S. citizens
whose lives were turned upside down". D769.8.A6.W35 2001
Fox, Stephen. Uncivil Liberties: Italian Americans Under Siege during World
War II. Universal Publishers, 2000. "Published originally as The
unknown internment: and oral history of the relocation of Italian Americans
during World War II." D769.8.F7.I84 2000
Higashide, Seiichi. Adios to Tears: The Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian
Internee in U.S. Concentration Camps. Seattle: University of Washington
Press, 2000. E184.J3 H525 2000
Okihiro, Gary Y. Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and
Culture. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994. Small sections
of this book discuss "yellow peril." E184.06 038 1994.
Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. Boston:
Little, Brown and Company, 1989. One chapter is titled "The Watershed
of World War II." D184.O6.T35 1989
Van Valkenburg, Carol Bulger. An Alien Place: The Fort Missoula, Montana,
Detention Camp, 1941-1944. Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Pub., 1995. "The
story of both the Italians and Japanese who were brought to Fort Missoula during
World War II. The Italians were mostly crew members from impounded merchant
ships docked in US ports". D805.U5.V36 1995.
Asian Americans: Opposing Viewpoints. Eds. David Bender, et al. San
Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1997. E184.O6.A8445 1997.
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