LC Subject: JAPANESE Americans -- Evacuation & relocation, 1942-1945
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Democratizing the Enemy
Brian Hayashi
D 769.8 .A6 H39 2004
Hayashi reevaluates the three-year ordeal of interred Japanese Americans. Using previously undiscovered documents, he examines the forces behind the U.S. government's decision to establish internment camps concluding that the motives of government officials and top military brass transcended the standard explanations of racism, wartime hysteria, and leadership failure. Among the other surprising factors that played into the decision were land development in the American West and plans for the American occupation of Japan. Publisher's comment
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Years of Infamy: The untold Story of America's Concentration Camps
Michi Weglyn
D 769.8 .A6 W43 1980
Writing in 1977, when this book was pubished, Arthur Hansen states "only scant and pejorative treatment has been accorded those ethnicated internees who frustrated the smooth operation of organized racism by their participation in camp revolts, their steadfast refusal to comply with bizarrely conceived loyalty questionaires, and their willingnes, if neccessary, to renounce their citizenship...Weglyn shows that their numbers were considerable, their intentions honorable, their plight representative, in an extreme way, of that of all internees, and their actions consonant with the tradition of American dissent."
The American Historical Review 82(3)
- The case of the Japanese Americans during WWII: Suppression of civil liberty
Edited by Minoru Kiyota
D769.8 .A6 C27 2004
This book narrates - mostly in the form of eyewitness accounts - the hardships and painful experiences of Japanese Americans during their forcible evacuation and internment in World War II.Publisher comment
Civil Rights
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Concentration Camps: North America and Prisoners without Trial
Roger Daniels
D 769.8 .A6 D35 1993 and D 769.8 .A6 W53 2000
In the early months of 1942, the United States government assembled and shipped off to concentration camps 112,000 men, women, and children -- the entire Japanese-American population of the three Pacific Coast states of California, Oregon, and an Washington. This book is an attempt to tell their story. It is the story of a national calamity commonly referred to as 'our worst wartime mistake.' This tendency to write off the evacuation as a 'mistake' is to obscure its it true significance. The legal atrocity which was committed against the Japanese-Americans was the logical outgrowth of over three centuries of American experience which taught Americans to regard the United States as a white man's country, in which nonwhites 'had no rights which the white man was bound to respect' (Dred Scott decision). Although it affected only a tiny segment of our population, it reflected one of the central themes of American history -- the theme of white supremacy. Publisher comment
- Judgment without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II
Tetsuden Kashima
D 769.8 .A6 K37 2003
Kashima reveals that long before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government began making plans for the eventual internment and later incarceration of the Japanese American population. Kashima uses newly obtained records to trace this process back to the 1920s, when a nascent imprisonment organization was developed to prepare for a possible war with Japan, and follows it in detail through the war years. Publisher comment
Memoir
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Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community
David Neiwert
F899 .B39 N45 2005
"With grace and attention to detail, Neiwert mixes personal histories with contemporary documents to tell the poignant story of the Japanese immigrants who built a community on inhospitable soil, saw their farms and families grow, and then were stripped from the land by a climactic act of official injustice. Strawberry Days serves as a telling reminder of the human costs of the wartime removal of Japanese Americans, and a continuing lesson for our own times." Greg Robinson, author, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans
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Last Witnesses: reflection on the wartime internment of Japanese Americans
Edited by Erica Harth
D769.8 .A6 L37 2007
These are fresh voices that haven't been heard in other books about this period, and they reveal the legacy of the camps from the silence engendered by shame, which affected lives for decades after the war, to the activism fueled by the passion of the Sansei (third-generation Japanese) in the Seventies and Eighties, which led to the 1988 passage of the Civil Liberties Act and monetary reparations. Harth, who lived in the camp at Manzanar, CA, as a young girl, brings together different viewpoints that not only look back but face forward to the future. Personal memoirs, dialogs between generations, research essays, and poetry combine to create a unique volume. Library Journal
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Imprisoned apart: The World War II correspondence of an Issei couple
by Louis Fiset
D769.8 .A6 F49 1997
This is the poignant story of a young teacher and his bride who came to Seattle from Japan in 1919 so that he might study English language and literature, and who stayed to make a home. On December 7, 1941, the FBI knocked at the Matsushitas' door and took Iwao away, first to a jail cell at the Seattle Immigration Station and then by special train, windows sealed and guards at the doors, to Montana. He was considered an enemy alien, "potentially dangerous to the public safety", because of his Japanese birth and professional associations. The story of Iwao Matsushita's determination to clear his name and be reunited with his wife, and of Hanaye Matsushita's growing confusion and despair, unfolds in their correspondence, presented here in full. Publisher comment
- Beyond loyalty: The story of a Kibei
Minoru Kiyota, translated by Linda Kleinger Keenan
A biting, politically alive memoir of the Japanese American predicament during and after WW II, including internment, FBI harassment, the painful dilemma of the loyalty oath, and both official and street-level varieties of anti-Japanese sentiment suffered long after the war had ended. Kiyota was a kibei, a US-born Japanese American who spent a few formative years being educated in Japanese language and culture in Japan. Like other kibei, his relationship to both Japan and the US was quite complicated. Beyond Loyalty renders that complexity in vivid, accessible detail. Choice Reveiw
Redress
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Historical memories of the Japanese American Internment and the struggle for redress
By Alice Yang Murray
D769.8 .A6 M88 2008
Part of the Asian America series presented by Stanford University, this book analyzes how the politics of memory and history affected representations of the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. Murray (history, U. of California Santa Cruz) focuses on the experiences and perspectives of the Nisei, the second-generation Japanese Americans, who were active post-World War II in the movement to redress the internment issues, interviewing former internees and redress activists as part of her research. The nine chapters progress in a roughly chronological historiography since World War II while also addressing histories of the "military necessity" for internment, the loyalty and patriotism of the Japanese American Citizens League, the "helpful" administrative advisors and "objective" researchers in the camps, and the representation of the internment in art and media. An epilogue focuses on the legacy of the Japanese American internment and redress. Book News, Inc.
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Righting a wrong: Japanese Americans and the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988
Leslie T. Hatamiya
D769.8.A6 H38 1993
This fine addition to the library is the story of the long and bitter political struggle in Congress to pass the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, a law to pay reparations to former camp inmates. The author explains how a bill with no backing from powerful lobbyists or constituents, in a time of economic belt-tightening, became a law through the committed efforts of a few politicians who appealed to the moral issue at hand. The detail is staggering. Very little of the legislative history is omitted, which makes the book tedious in parts, yet anyone interested in redress issues of the imprisoned Japanese Americans or in the workings of Congress will find this book a good case study in both the issues and processes. Library Journal
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Born in Seattle: the campaign for Japanese American redress
Robert Sadamu Shimabukuro
D819.U6 S45 2001
A chronicle of the activists who initiated a national campaign for redress for the World War II internment of 120,000 Japanese-American citizens. The author, a Seattle writer, interviewed hundreds of people who had lived in the internment camps, as well as organizers of the movement. It began in the late 1960s with second-generation Japanese-American engineers at Boeing who set out to educate their community, legislative bodies, and the broader public about the need for the federal government to acknowledge the wartime injustice. Two decades later, it led to President Ronald Reagan's signing the 1988 Civil Liberties Act. Book News, Inc.
- Sins of the parents: the politics of national apologies in the United States
Brian A. Weiner.
JC599.U5 W367 2005
Debates have swirled around the question of national forgiveness for the past fifty years. Using two examples, the land claims of the Oneida Indians and the claims for reparations to Japanese Americans interned during World War II. Brian Weiner suggests a way of thinking about national mistakes. Arguing beyond collective "innocence" or "guilt," Sins of the Parents offers a model of collective responsibility to deal with past wrongs in such a way as to reinvigorate our notion of citizenship. Drawing upon the writings of Abraham Lincoln and Hannah Arendt, Weiner offers a definition of political responsibility that at once defines citizenship and sidesteps the familial, racial, and ethnic questions that often ensnare debates about national apologies.Book News, Inc.
Draft Resisters
- Free to die for their country: The story of the Japanese American draft resisters in World War II
Eric L. Muller
D810 .C82 M85 2001
In the spring of 1942, the federal government forced West Coast Japanese Americans into detainment camps on suspicion of disloyalty. Two years later, the government demanded even more, drafting them into the same military that had been guarding them as subversives. Most of these Americans complied, but Free to Die for Their Country is the first book to tell the powerful story of those who refused. Based on years of research and personal interviews, Eric L. Muller re-creates the emotions and events that followed the arrival of those draft notices, revealing a dark and complex chapter of America's history.
Publisher comment
Art/Photography
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Impounded: Dorthea Lange and the Censored Images of the Japanese American Internment
Linda Gordon and Gary Okihiro
D 769.8 .A6 L35 2006
When America's War Relocation Authority hired Dorothea Lange to photograph the internment of Japanese-Americans in 1942, they put a few restrictions on her work. Barbed wire, watchtowers and armed soldiers were off limits, they declared. And no pictures of resistance, either. They wanted the roundup and sequestering of Japanese-Americans documented-but not too well. Working within these limits, Lange, who is best known for her photographs of migrant farmers during the Depression, nonetheless produced images whose content so opposed the federal objective of demonizing Japanese-Americans that the vast majority of the photographs were suppressed throughout WWII (97% of them have never been published at all). Editors Gordon and Okihiro set this first collection of Lange's internment work within technical, cultural and historical contexts.Publishers Weekly
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The View from within: Japanese American art from the internment camps, 1942-1945 : Wight Art Gallery October 13 through December 6, 1992
Karin M Higa
N6538.J3 V54 1992
The Japanese American National Museum, the UCLA Wright Gallery and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center collaborated to bring this collection of artwork together as an exhibit and as a book.
- The art of gaman: arts and crafts from the Japanese American internment camps, 1942-1946
Delphine Hirasuna designed by Kit Hinrichs photography by Terry Heffernan.
NK839.3.J32 H57 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. Publisher comment
Literature
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No-no boy John Okada.
PS3565.K33 N6 1981
In the aftermath of World War II, Ichiro, a Japanese American, returns home to Seattle to make a new start after two years in an internment camp and two years in prison for refusing to be drafted. Publisher comment
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What the scarecrow said: a novel
Stewart David Ikeda
PS3559 .K43 W43 1996
Most literature published on the WW II concentration camp experiences of Japanese Americans has been written by, and largely about, women. Ikeda's novel is, therefore, unusual and welcome at the very least because it details the life of a Nisei man, beginning with his mother's having her legs tied together until her ship docks at an American port so that her son will be born American and ending with the son's death as an old man before the US has made a formal apology and reparation. Choice Review
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