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Collections on Japanese Americans in World War II

This guide aims to illuminate the comprehensive collections housed in the Special Collections Research Center related to Japanese Americans in World War II, highlighting the challenges they faced in the U.S. and their contributions to the war effort. In a

Bibliography

Issei man and Nisei boy at Manzanar War Relocation Center
Issei man and Nisei boy at Manzanar War Relocation Center

General Works

Adams, Ansel, and Wynne Benti.  Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans.  Bishop, CA: Spotted Dog Press, 2002.

Alinder, Jasmine.  Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.  D769.8.A6 A64 2009

Borhan, Pierre.  Dorothea Lange: the Heart and Mind of a Photographer.  Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 2002.  f TR140.L3 B6713 2002

Cahan, Richard, and Michael Williams.  Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II.  Chicago: CityFiles Press, 2016.

Conrat, Maisie.  Executive Order 9066; the Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans.  San Francisco, CA: California Historical Society, 1972.  D769.8.A6 C6 1972 c.2

Daniels, Roger.  The Politics of Prejudice: The Anti-Japanese Movement in California and the Struggle for Japanese Exclusion.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.  F870.J3 D17 1977

Daniels, Roger.  Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II.  New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.  D769.8.A6 D37 1993

De Nevers, Klancy Clark.  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.  D769.8.A6 D44 2004

Eaton, Allen H.  Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps.  New York: Harper, 1952.  N7355 .E2 [Special Collections Research Center]

Fallen, Anne-Catherine and Osborn, Kevin.  Records of Our National Life: American History at the National Archives.  Washington, DC: Foundation for the National Archives, 2009.  f Z1236.R436 2009

Girdner, Audrie.  The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II.  New York: Macmillan, 1969.  D769.8.A6 G5

Heyman, Thereses Thau.  Dorothea Lange: American Photographs.  San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Chronicle Books, 1994.  f TR820.5 .H5 1994

Hayashi, Brian Masaru.  Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.  D769.8.A6 H39 2004

Inada, Lawson Fusao, ed.  Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience.  Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2000.  D769.8.A6 O55 2000

Inouye, Karen.  The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016.

Japanese Americans: From Relocation to Redress.  Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1991.

Lange, Dorothea.  Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment.  New York: W.W. Norton, 2006.  D769.8.A6 L35 2006

Murray, Alice.  Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008.  D769.8.A6 M88 2008

Nagata, Donna K.  Legacy of Injustice: Exploring the Cross-generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment.  New York: Plenum Press, 1993.  D769.8.A6 N33 1993

Ng, Wendy.  Japanese American Internment During World War II: A History and Reference Guide.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.  D769.8.A6 N4 2002

Partridge, Elizabeth. Dorothea Lange--A Visual Life. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. f TR140.L3 D67 1994

Reeves, Richard.  Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II.  New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2015.  

Robinson, Greg.  By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.  D769.8.A6 R63 2001

Russell, Jan Jarboe.  The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 2015.

Smith, Page.  Democracy on Trial: The Japanese American Evacuation and Relocation in World War II.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.  D769.8.A6 S64 1995

United States National Park Service.  Manzanar National Historic Site.  Washington, DC: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 2015.  I 29.6/6:M 31/3/2015 [U.S. Government Documents]

 

Law, Civil Rights and Redress

Bannai, Lorraine K.  Enduring Conviction.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015.

Bangarth, Stephanie.  Voices Raised in Protest: Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, 1942-49.  Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2008.

Collins, Donald E.  Native American Aliens: Disloyalty and the Reunification of Citizenship by Japanese Americans during World War II.  Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985.  KF7224.5 .C64 1985

Fukuda, Yoshiaki.  My Six Years of Internment: An Issei’s Struggle for Justice.  San Francisco: Konko Church of San Francisco, 1990.  D769.8.A6 F813 1990

Hatamiya, Leslie T.  Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.  D769.8.A6 H38 1993

Hirabayashi, Gordon K.  A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi V. United States.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013.

Hohri, William Minrou.  Repairing American: An Account of the Movement for Japanese-American Redress.  Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1984. 

Irons, Peter, ed.  Justice Delayed: The Record of the Japanese American Internment Cases.  Middleton: Wesleyan University Press, 1989.  KF7224.5 .J87 198

The Japanese-American Internment During World War II: A Discussion of Civil Liberties Then and Now.  Sacramento: Senate Publications, 2000.  S3062.J36

Kessler, Lauren.  Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family.  New York: Random House, 1993.  CT274.Y39 K47 1993   (Contains a chapter that documents Minoru Yasui's civil rights protest of curfew and evacuation.)

Lyon, Cherstin M.  Prisons and Patriots: Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012.

Maki, Mitchell, Harry H.L. Kitano, and S. Megan Berthold.  Achieving the Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.  D769.8.A6 M29 1999

McClain, Charles, ed.  The Mass Internment of Japanese Americans and the Quest for Legal Redress.  New York: Garland, 1994.  D769.8.A6 M33 1994

Rawitsch, Mark Howland.  The House on Lemon Street: Japanese Pioneers and the American Dream.  Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2012.

Senate Publications. The Japanese-American Internment During WWII: A Discussion of Civil Liberties Then and Now.  Sacramento, CA 2000.  S3062.J36 [U.S. Government Documents]

Shimabukuro, Mira.  Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration.  Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2015. D769.8.A6 S54 2015 [Special Collections Research Center]

Shimabukuro, Robert Sadamu.  Born in Seattle: The Campaign of Japanese American Redress.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.  D819.U6 S45 2001

Tsuchida, Nobuya.  American Justice: Japanese American Evacuation and Redress Cases.  Minneapolis: Asian/Pacific American Learning Resource Center, University of Minnesota, 1988.  KF7224.5.A52 T78 1988

United States.  Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.  Personal Justice Denied.  Washington, D.C.: Civil Liberties Public Education Fund; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations.  Legislation to Implement the Recommendations of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.  Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1998.  Y 4.J 89/1: 100/19 [U.S. Government Documents]

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post Office, and Civil Service.  To Accept the Findings and to Implement the Recommendations of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.  Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1987.  Y 4.G 74/9: S.HRG. 100-260  [U.S. Government Documents]

Yamamoto, Eric K.  Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment.  Gaithersburg: Aspen Law and Business, 2001.  KF7224.5 .R33 2001

Manzanar War Relocation Center
Manzanar War Relocation Center

Assembly/Relocation Centers

Bailey, Paul.  City in the Sun: The Japanese Concentration Camp at Poston, Arizona.  Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1971.  D769.8.A6 B3 c.2

Feeley, Francis M.  America’s Concentration Camps During World War II: Social Science and the Japanese American Internment.  New Orleans, LA: University Press of the South, 1999.  D769.8.A6 F44 1999

Fiset, Louis.  Camp Harmony: Seattle’s Japanese Americans and the Puyallup Assembly Center.  Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009.  D769.8.A6 F48 2009

Mackey, Mike, ed.  A Matter of Conscience: Essays on the World War II Heart Mountain Draft Resistance Movement.  Powell, WY: Western History Publications, 2002.  D769.8.A6 M388 2002

Nishimoto, Richard S.  Inside an American Concentration Camp: Japanese American Resistance at Poston, Arizona.  Tucson, AZ:University of Arizona Press, 1995.  D769.8.A6 N57 1995 c.4

Okihiro, Gary Y.  Whispered Silences : Japanese Americans and World War II.  Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1996.  D769.8.A6 O36 1996

Okubo, Miné.  Citizen 13660.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983.  D769.8.A6 O38 1983

Riley, Karen L.  Schools Behind Barbed Wire: The Untold Story of Wartime Internment and the Children of Arrested Enemy Aliens.  Lanam, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.  D769.8.A6 R55 2002

Takashima, Shizuye.  A Child in Prison Camp.  Plattsburg, NY: Tundra Books, 1971.  f D768.15 .T34

Unrau, Harlan D.  Manzanar National Historic Site, California: The Evacuation and Relocation of Persons of Japanese Ancestry During World War II: A Historical Study of Manzanar War Relocation.  Denver, CO: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1996.  I 29.58/3:M 31/ v.2 [U.S. Government Documents]

Yatsushiro, Toshio.  Politics and Cultural Values: The World War II Japanese Relocation Centers, United State Government.  New York: Arno Press, 1978.  D769.8.A6 Y37 1978

Tatsumi and Kenichi Zenimura
Left to right: Tatsumi and Kenichi Zenimura

Memoirs, Biographies and Oral Histories

Dempster, Brian Komei.  Making Home from War: Stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement.  Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2011.  D769.8.A6 M325 2011

Fujino, Diane C.  Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.  E184.J3 F8335 2005

Fujino, Diane C.  Samurai Among Panthers: Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life.  Critical American Studies.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Gruenewald, Mary Matsuda.  Looking Like the Enemy:  My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps.  Troutdale, OR: NewSage Press, 2005.  D769.8.A5 G78 2005

Havey, Lily Yuriko Nakai.  Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind a World War II Fence.  Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2014. 

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 1993

Hirano, Kiyo.  Enemy Alien.  JAM Publications, 1983.

Hirohata, Joyce, and Hirohata, Paul.  Nisei Voices: Japanese American Students of the 1930s, Then and Now.  Oakland, CA: Hirohata Design, 2004.  F870.J3 N57 2004

Hosokawa, Bill.  Nisei: The Quiet Americans Revised Edition.  Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2002.  E184.J3 H62 2002

Imahara, James.  James Imahara, Son of Immigrants.  N.p., 1982.  E184.J3 I43 1982

Jimmy Murakami: Non-Alien.  Video.  New York: Pop Twist Entertainment, 2011.

Nakane, Kazuko.  Nothing left in My Hands: An Early Japanese American Community in California’s Pajaro Valley.  Seattle, WA: Young Pine Press, 1985.  F868.S3 N35 1985

Okimoto, Daniel I.  American in Disguise.  New York: Walker/Weatherhill, 1971. E184.J3 O37

Oppenheim, Joanne.  Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and the Librarian Who Made a Difference.  New York: Scholastic Nonfiction, 2006.  D769.8.A6 O67 2006 [Teacher Resource Center, and Arne Nixon Center]

Raineri, Vivian McGuckin.  The Red Angel: The Life and Times of Elaine Black Yoneda, 1906-1988.  New York: International Publishers, 1991.  HQ1413.Y66 R35 1991

Robinson, Greg.  After Camp: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.

Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner.  Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds.  New York: Harper, 2016.  D753.8 .S24 2016

Shirai, Noboru.  Tule Lake: An Issei Memoir.  Sacramento: Muteki Press, 2001.  D769.8.A6 S5313 2001

Schrager, Adam.   The Principled Politician: The Ralph Carr Story.  Boulder, CO: Fulcrum Press, 2008. F781 .S34 2008

Soga, Keho.  Life Behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawai’i Issei.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008.   D769.8.A6 S66 2008

Staples, Bill.  Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer.  Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Co., 2011.  GV865.Z46 S73 2011 [Special Collections Research Center]

Suyemoto, Toyo.  I Call to Remembrance: Toyo Suyemoto’s Years of Internment.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007.

Tateishi, John.  And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.  D769.8.A6 A67 1999

Uchida, Yoshiko.  Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982.  D769.8.A6 U25 1982

The American Diary of a Japanese Girl
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl

Fiction

Allende, Isabel.  The Japanese Lover: A Novel.  New York: Atria Books, 2015.  PQ8098.1.L54 A67513 2015

Charyn, Jerome.  American Scrapbook.  New York: Viking Press, 1993.  PS3553.H33 A5

Edmiston, James.  Home Again.  Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955.  PS3509.D514 H6                              

Ford, Jamie.  Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.  New York: Ballantine, 2009.

Hamamura, John.  Color of the Sea.  New York, St. Martin’s Press, 2006.  PS3608.A549436 C65 2006  

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki.  The Legend of Fire Horse Woman.  New York: Kensington, 2003.

Kehoe, Karon.  City in the Sun.  New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1946.

Mirikitani, Janice.  We, The Dangerous.  London: Virago Press, 1995.  PS3563.I696 W43 1995

Miyakawa, Edward.  Tule Lake.  Waldport, OR: House by the seas Publishing Co., 1979.  PS3563.I89 T8

Miyamoto, Kazuo.  Hawaii, End of the Rainbow.  Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1968.  D805.U5 M5

Mueller, Marnie.  The Climate of the Country.  Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1999. PS3563.U354 C58 1999

Nakamura, Hiroshi.  Treadmill: A Documentary Novel.  Oakville, ON; Buffalo, NY: Mosaic Press, 1996.  PS3564.A5293 T74 1996

Otsuka, Julie.  The Buddha in the Attic.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.   PS3615.T88 B83 2011

Otsuka, Julie.  When the Emperor was Divine.  New York: Random House, 2002.  PS3615.T88 W48 2002

Parker, Alan.  Come See the Paradise.  DVD.  Beverly Hills: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2006.  disc PN1997 C6767 2006 [Music/Media Reserve]

Rizzuto, Rahna R.  Why She Left Us: A Novel.  New York: HarperCollins, 1999.  PS3568.I87 W49 1999

Robertson, Georgia Day.  The Harvest of Hate.  Fullerton: California State University, Oral History Program, 1986.  PS3568.O249 H3 1986

Roosevelt, Kermit.  Allegiance: A Novel.  New York: Regan Arts, 2015.

Shigekuni, Julie.  A Bridge Between Us.  New York: Anchor, 1995.  PS3569.H4865 B75 1995

Through Innocent Eyes: Writings and Art from the Japanese American Internment.  Los Angeles: Keiro Services Press and the Generations Fund, 1990.  D769.8.A6 T57 1990

Map of locations where German Americans were incarcerated
Map of locations where German Americans were incarcerated

German and Italian Internees

DiStasi, Lawrence, ed.  Una Storia Segreta: The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation and Internment during World War II.  Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2001.  D769.8.A6 W35 2001

Estlack, Russell.  Shattered Lives, Shattered Dreams: The Untold Story of America’s Enemy Aliens in World War II.  Springfield, UT: Bonneville Books, 2011.

Fox, Stephen.   The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans during World War II.  Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990.  D769.8.A6 F66 1990

Italian American Internment: A Secret Story.  VHS.  New York: New Video Group; New York: A&E Entertainment, 2000.  cass D769.8.A6 I83 2000 [Music/Media Reserve]

Krammer, Arnold.  Undue Process: The Untold Story of America’s German Alien Internees.  London: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.  D769.8.A6 K73 1997

442nd Regimental Combat Team
442nd Regimental Combat Team

Japanese American Servicemen and Women

Duus, Masayo Umezawa.  Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd.  Translated Peter Duus.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987.  D753.8 .D8813 1987

Elms, Matthew.  When the Akimotos Went to War: An Untold Story of Family, Patriotism, and Sacrific During World War II.  Arlington, VA: American Battle Monuments Commission, 2015.  Y 3.AM 3:2 AK 5 [U.S. Government Documents]

John Aiso and the M.I.S.: Japanese-American Soldiers in the Military Intelligence Service, World War II.  Los Angeles: Military Intelligence Service Club, 1988.  D810.S7 J58 1988

Masuda, Minoru.  Letters from the 442nd: The World War II Correspondence of a Japanese American Medic.  Edited by Hana Masuda and Diane Bridgman.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.  D769.31 442nd .M36 2008

McNaughton, James C.  Nisei Linguistics: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service during World War II.  Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 2006.
D 101.2:N 63  [U.S. Government Documents]

Okana, John.  No-No Boy.  Seattle, WA: Combined Asian American Resources Project, 1976.  PS3565.K3 N6 1976 c.2

Tanaka, Chester.  Go For Broke: A Pictorial History of the Japanese American 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.  San Mateo: JACP, Inc., 1982.
f D769.31 100th .T36 1982

Yamashita, Bruce I.  Fighting Tradition: A Marine’s Journey to Justice.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press; Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2003.  VE25.Y36 A3 2003

Japanese American children ice skating at one of the incarceration camps
Japanese American children ice skating at unspecified incarceration camp

Children’s Books

Dallas, Sandra.  Tallgrass. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007.

Davis, Daniel S.  Behind Barbed Wire: The Imprisonment of Japanese Americans During World War II.  New York: Dutton, 1982.  D769.8.A6 D38 1982 [Teacher Resource Center]

Faulkner, Matt.  Gaijin: American Prisoner of War: A Graphic Novel.  New York: Disney Hyperion Books, 2014.  j PZ1.F2735 gai 2014 [Teacher Resource Center, and Arne Nixon Center]

Fremon, David K.  Japanese-American Internment in American History.  Springfield, NJ: Enslow, 1996.  D769.8.A6 F74 1996 [Teacher Resource Center]

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki.  Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After World War II Internment.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.  E184.J3 H63 1973

Irwin, Hadley.  Kim/Kimi.  New York: M.K. McElderly Books, 1987.  j PZ1.Ir95 ki [Teacher Resource Center]

Ishigo, Estelle.  Lone Heart Mountain.  Los Angeles, CA, 1972.  D769.8.A6 I7 gr.k-12 [Teacher Resource Center]

Larson, Kirby.  Dash.  New York: Scholastic Press, 2014.  j PZ1.L3293 das 2014 [Teacher Resource Center]

Marrin, Albert.  Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II.  New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2016. D769.8.A6 M329 2016 [Arne Nixon Center]

Means, Florence Crannell.  The Moved-Outers.  New York: Walker, 1992.  PZ7.M5124 Mo 1992 [Arne Nixon Center]

Mochizuki, Ken.  Baseball Saved Us.  New York: Lee and Row, 1993.  jE PZ2.M7155 Ba [Teacher Resource Center]

Mochizuki, Ken.  Heroes.  New York: Lee and Low Books, 1995.  jE PZ2.M7155 he [Teacher Resource Center]

Moss, Marissa.  Barbed Wire Baseball.  New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2013.  GV863.A1 M676 2013 [Arne Nixon Center]

Nagai, Mariko.  Dust of Eden.  Park Ridge, IL: Albert Whitman and Co., 2014.

Oakes, Vanya.  Desert Harvest: A Story of the Japanese in California.  Philadelphia: Winston, 1953.  PZ7.O104 Des 1953 [Arne Nixon Center]

Oakes, Vanya.  Roy Sato, New Neighbor.  New York: J. Messner, 1955.

Pyle, Kevin C.  Take What You Can Carry.  New York: Henry Holt, 2012.  PN6727.P96 T35 2012 [Arne Nixon Center]

Savin, Marcia.  The Moon Bridge.  New York: Scholastic, 1992.  PZ7.S2654 Mo 1992 [Arne Nixon Center]

Sepahban, Lois.  Paper Wishes.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2016.  PZ7.1.S462 Pap 2016 [Arne Nixon Center]

Shigekawa, Marlene.  Blue Jay in the Desert.  Chicago: Polychrome, 1993.  jE PZ2.Sh617 bL [Teacher Resource Center]

Sinnott, Susan.  Our Burden of Shame: Japanese-American Internment During World War II.  New York: F. Watts, 1995.  D769.8.A6 S56 1995 [Teacher Resource Center]

Smith, Icy.  Mei Ling in China City.  Manhattan Beach, CA: East West Discovery Press, 2008.  PZ7.S64927 Mei 2008 [Arne Nixon Center]

Stanley, Jerry.  I am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment.  New York: Crown, 1994.  D769.8.A6 S73 1994 [Teacher Resource Center, and Arne Nixon Center]

Tunnell, Michael O.  The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp.  New York: Holiday House, 1996.  D769.8.A6 T86 1996 [Teacher Resource Center, and Arne Nixon Center]

Uchida, Yoshiko.  Journey Home.  New York: Atheneum, 1978.  j PZ1.Uc45 jn [Teacher Resource Center, and Arne Nixon Center]

Uchida, Yoshiko.  Journey to Topaz: A story of the Japanese-American Evacuation.  Berkeley: Creative Arts, 1985.  PZ7.U25 Jo 1985 [Arne Nixon Center]

Welch, Catherine A.  Children of the Relocation Camps.  Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 2000.  D769.8.A6 W45 2000 [Teacher Resource Center]

Wolff, Virginia Euwer.  Bat6.  New York: Scholastic Press, 1998.  j PZ1.W8328 ba [Teacher Resource Center, and Arne Nixon Center]

Yamasaki, Katie.  Fish for Jimmy: Inspired by One Family’s Experience in a Japanese American Internment Camp.  New York: Holiday House, 2013.  PZ7.Y19157 Fi 2013 [Arne Nixon Center]

Yancey, Diane.  The Internment of the Japanese.  San Diego: Lucent Books, 2001.  D769.8.A6 Y359 2002. [Teacher Resource Center]

Yancey, Diane.  Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp.  San Diego: Lucent Books, 1998.  D769.8.A6 Y36 1998 [Teacher Resource Center]

Toyo Miyatake
Toyo Miyatake

Film and Video

9066 to 9-11: America’s Concentration Camps Then… and Now?  Los Angeles: Japanese American Nation Museum, 2004.

The American Pastime.  Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video, 2007.  PN1997.2 .A44 2007 [Music/Media Reserve]

After Silence.  Directed by Lois Shelton and Susan Buster Thomas.  Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films, 2003.

Children of the Camps: The Documentary.  San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 1999. D 769.8 A6 C452 1999 c.2 [Music/Media Reserve]

The Color of Honor. San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 1988. D 753.8 C65 1999 [Music/Media Reserve]

Conscience and the Constitution: They Fought on Their Own Battlefield. Seattle, WA: Resisters.com Productions, 2000. D 753.8 C652 2011 [Music/Media Reserve]

Forced Out: Internment and the Enduring Damage to California’s Cities and Towns.  Sacramento: Asian-Pacific Chamber of Commerce, Central Valley Asian-American Chamber of Commerce, 2003.  F 870 J3 F67 2003 [Music/Media Reserve]

Honor & Sacrifice: The Roy Matsumoto Story.  Stourwater Pictures, 2013.  D 769.8 A6 H66 2013 [Music/Media Reserve]

The First Battle: The Battle for Equality in War-Time Hawaii.  Directed by Tom Coffman.  San Francisco: Center for Asian American Media, 2006. 

A Flicker in Eternity: Based on the Diary and Letters of Stanley Hayami.  California State Library, 2012.  D 769.8 A6 F55 2012 [MMR]

Forsaken Fields.  Sacramento, CA: KVIE Inc., 2000. D 769.8 A6 F657 2000 [Music/Media Reserve]

From a Different Shore: The Japanese-American Experience.  Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1996. E 184 J3 F76 1996 [Music/Media Reserve]

From a Silk Cocoon.  San Francisco: Center for Asian American Media, 2005.  D 769.8 A6 F765 2005 [Music/Media Reserve]

Fumiko Hayashida: the Woman Behind the Symbol.  Stourwater Pictures, 2009.  D 769.8 A6 F86 2009 [Music/Media Reserve]

Hidden Internment: The Art Shibayama Story.  Progressive Films, 2004.

Jimmy Murakami: Non Alien.  New York: Pop Twist Entertainment, 2011.

Manzanar.  San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 1971.  D 769.8 A6 M3 2006 [Music/Media Reserve]

Nisei Diploma Project: The California State University: Sharing and Celebrating Stories from Nisei Honorary Degree Recipients.  Long Beach: The California State University, 2011.  disc D769.8.A6 C223 2011 [Music/Media Reserve]

Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story.  San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 2000.  KF7224.5 .O4 2000 [Music/Media Reserve]

Resettlement to Redress.  Sacramento: KVIE, 2006.  E184.J3 R48 2006 [Music/Media Reserve]

Return to the Valley: The Japanese-American Experience After WWII.  KTEH, 2003.  D 769.8 A6 R48 2003 [Music/Media Reserve]

Topaz.  Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah, 1988.  D 769.8 A6 T66 2011 [Music/Media Reserve]

Toyo’s Camera: Japanese American History during WWII.  Hollywood, California, 2009.  D 769.8 A6 H68 2009 [Music/Media Reserve]

Unfinished Business.  San Francisco: Mouchette Films, 1985.  D 769.8 A6 U494 1984 [Music/Media Reserve]

What It Means to be Free.  Ashland, OR: TTTD Productions, 2004.  PS 3559 N3 Z75 2004 [Music/Media Reserve]

The Woman Behind the Symbol.  San Francisco: Kanopy Streaming, 2005.

Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice.  Directed by Patricia Saunders and Rea Tajiri.  New York: Distributed by Women Make Movies, 2008.  E184.J3 Y875 2008 [Music/Media Reserve]


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