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Weglyn, Michi.  Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps.  New York: Morrow, 1976.

One of the first--and still one of the best--studies of the history of internment camps during World War II.

Daniels, Rogers. Concentration Camps USA: Japanese Americans and World War II. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, Inc., 1971.

Another classic study of the Japanese American internment.

Okihiro, Gary Y.  Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.

Study of young internees sent out of camps to attend colleges through programs sponsored by "student relocation councils."

Duus, Masayo Umezawa. Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987.

The story of Japanese American soldiers in WWII.

Matsumoto, Valerie J. Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993.

A study of a Japanese American community before, during and after WWII.

Hazama, Dorothy Ochiai and Jane Okamoto Komeiji. Okage Sama De: The Japanese in Hawaii, 1885-1985. Honolulu: Bess Press, 1986.

A study of the Japanese in Hawaii, with a chapter on the WWII experience.

Bailey, Beth and David Farber. The First Strange Place: Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

A study of WWII Hawaii.

Irons, Peter.  Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese American Internment Cases.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

A study of the Yasui, Hirabayshi, and Korematsu ccourt cases.

Yung, Judy. Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Includes a discussion of Margaret Chung and the Chinese American experience during WWII.

Herman, Ellen. The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Studies the role psychologists have played in influencing government policy, including that affecting Japanese internment.

Okada, John. No-No Boy. Seattle: Combined Asian American Resources Project, 1976.

Fictional account of a Nisei’s struggle during and after WWII.

Gunn, Rex B. They Called Her Tokyo Rose. Santa Monica, Calif: Gunn, 1977.9

The story of a Japanese American woman tried for treason during WWII.

Kessler, Lauren. Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family. New York: Random House, 1993.

A study of the Yasui family of Hood River, Oregon (Minoru Yasui was convicted of defying a Portland curfew for Japanese Americans) through three generations.

Ford, Daniel. Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and the American Volunteer Group. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.

A history of the Flying Tigers and their role in WWII.

Drinnon, Richard. Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

A critical look at the government administrator of the Japanese interment camps.

Daniels, Roger, et. al. Japanese Americans: From Relocation to Redress. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991.

Essays on internment and the subsequent movement for redress

Japanese Relocation. 11 m. 1982. Videorecording.

Originally issued as motion picture in 1943. Presents the U.S. government's official explanation for the removal of 110,000 persons of Japanese descent from the Pacific Coast and their relocation in Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming. Available in IMC VIDEOTAPE 00284

Unfinished Business: The Japanese American Internment Cases. Produced and directed by Steven Okazaki. 60 m. 1984. Videorecording.

Tells the stories of three Japanese-Americans, Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, and Minoru Yasui, who resisted the military orders to intern the Japanese-Americans and remove them from the West Coast after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Focuses on the three men's lives and the reasons behind their decisions to take their cases to the Supreme Court. Available in the IMC. VIDEOTAPE 00533

The Color of Honor: The Japanese-American soldier in WWII. Written, directed and produced by Loni Ding. 90 m. 1987. Videorecording.

Experiences of Japanese Americans during World War II who served in the U.S. armed forces as translators and interpreters in military intelligence. These linguists tell of their experiences in gathering intelligence for the U.S. war effort; yet, at the same time, alien Japanese as well as Japanese Americans were placed in concentration camps. Explains events in the long road to seek redress of this injustice. Shows the reunion of Japanese American veterans and French at Bruyerers, France, in 1984. Available in IMC. VIDEOTAPE 01555

Who's Going to Pay for These Donuts Anyway? Produced and directed by Janice Tanaka. 58m. 1993. Videorecording.

Chronicles the filmmaker's' personal search for her father, whom she had not seen since age three. She finds him in a half-way house for the chronically mentally ill in Los Angeles' Skid Row. As a young man, he had been arrested by the FBI for opposing the Japanese-American internment and diagnosed as a schizophrenic. Film provides clear evidence of the profound effect of the Japanese American internment on generations of individuals. Available in IMC. VIDEOTAPE 02931

Internment and Evacuation of Japanese Americans, 1942

Collection of 1942 newspaper articles which details the evacuation of the Japanese from San Francisco and other West Coast cities, provided by the San Francisco Museum. http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html

Japanese American Internment Camps During WWII

Photos from internment camps provided by the University of Utah’s Special Collections. http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/9066/9066.htm

Camp Harmony Exhibit

This exhibit tells the story of Seattle's Japanese American community in the spring and summer of 1942 and their four month sojourn at the Puyallup Assembly Center known as "Camp Harmony." Provided by the University of Washington. http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Exhibit/bainbridge.html

Okubo, Mine. Citizen 13660. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983.

A narrative of life in an interment camp, with drawings by the author.

Tateishi, John.  And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Internment Camps.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.

Interviews with internees.

Fiset, Louis.  Imprisoned Apart: The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.

The story of a husband and wife interned in two separate camps during World War II.

Adams, Ansel. Born Free and Equal: Photographs of the Loyal Japanese-Americans at Manzanar Relocation Center, Inyo County, California. New York: U.S. camera, 1944.

Photos by the famous photographer of the American West. In the rare books department of Special Collections.

Garrett, Jesse and Ronald C. Larson, eds., Camp and Community: Manzanar and the Owens Valley.  Fullerton: California State University, 1977.

Interviews with the Owens Valley "neighbors" of the Manzanar Internment camp.

Hansen, Arthur A., ed. Japanese American World War II Evacuation Oral History Project. Westport: Meckler, 1991.

Five volumes of oral history related to Japanese internment.

Japanese Camp Newspapers. Washington: Library of Congress, 1977.

Twenty-two reels of microfilm of internment camp newspapers.

Online Guide to Japanese Camp Newspapers in the University of Oregon Microfilms Collection.

This guide organizes the papers by the place of publication and includes title, date range and reel numbers.  http://libweb.uoregon.edu/govdocs/micro/jdc.htm

Daniels, Roger, ed. American Concentration Camps. New York: Garland, 1989.

Nine volumes of government documents related to internment.

Higa, Karin M. The View From Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1945. Los Angeles: Japanese American National Museum, 1992.

The catalogue of a remarkable exhibition of paintings done by Japanese Americans while they were interned during World War II.

U.S. Army. Final Report, Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast, 1942. Washington, D.C., GPO, 1943.

Final report of the U.S. government on the first phase of the "evacuation."