Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 
  Margaret Fast, Librarian for History
       

Catalog Subject Headings - Search for Books - Use:
         Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Personal narratives for memoirs
         Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Periodicals for camp papers
         Japanese Americans -- Civil rights for civil rights

Reference Sources

American Decades 1940-1949 
Ref.  169.12.A419 1944 v. 5

American Decades:  Primary Sources 1940-1949 
Ref. E169.1.A471977 2004 v.5

A Buried Past; An Annotated Bibliography of the Japanese American Research Project Collection
Ref. E184.J3 B8

The Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience   
Ref. E184.O6 C63 2002

Encyclopedia of Japanese American History: An A-to-Z Reference from 1868 to the Present
Ref. E184.J3 E53 2001

Japanese American Internment During World War II: A History and Reference Guide
Ref. D769.8.A6 N4 2002

Documents and Primary Sources

A More Perfect Union:  Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution
http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/

By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans. 
D769.8.A6 R63 2001

Executive Order 9066:  The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans 
D769.8.A6 C6   OR   http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=74&page=transcript

Camp Harmony Exhibit   "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."  
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Exhibit/

Community government in war relocation centers / United States Department of the Interior, War Relocation Authority
D769.8.A6 U52

Democracy on Trial: The Japanese American Evacuation and Relocation in World War II
D769.8.A6 S64 1995

Hawaii War Records Depository

Interment of San Francisco Japanese   The San Francisco News, for the first six months of 1942.  
http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html

The Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project
"... a multifaceted project to create a permanent Web site which provides enhanced access to the UW Libraries holdings on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.  The collection is "...  based on materials located in the University of Washington Libraries including newspapers, photographs, correspondence, books, and documents. ."

Japanese-Americans Internment Camps During World War II   
http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/9066/9066.htm

Japanese Camp Papers.  Contains 50 titles of newspapers published by the internees of the relocation camps during World War II.
Wilson 2W microfilm  D769.8.A6 J37 1970z

Justice Delayed: The Record of the Japanese American Internment Cases
KF7224.5 .J87 1989

Manzanar National Historic Site, California:  The Evacuation and Relocation of Persons of Japanese Ancestry during World War II:  A Historical Study of the Manzanar War Relocation Center
D769.8.A6 U58 1996 2 vols.

Suffering Under a Great Injustice:  Ansel Adams' Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar 
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/

The View from Within:  Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps 
N6538.J3 H54 1994

War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona 1942-1946 
http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/wracamps/index.html

 

Oral Histories, Personal Narratives, Memoirs

After Silence
D769.8.A A54 2002  Video Collection Wilson 2 West

        "Based on the personal story of Dr. Frank Kitamoto of Bainbridge Island, Washington, where the first of 110,000 West Coast Japanese Americans were forced from their homes.  The past comes to life as Frank, who spent 3-1/2 years of his childhood in a United States internment camp during WWII, and five students from his island community develop archival prints in the high school darkroom. Together Frank and the students discuss the need to safeguard constitutional rights for all."--Container.

And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps
D769.8.A6 A67 1984

Camp and Community:  Manzanar and the Owens Valley 
D769.8.A6 C23

Desert Exile:  The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family 
D769.8.A6 U25 1984

Farewell to Manzanar:  A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
E184.J3 H63

Japanese American World War II Evacuation Oral History Project
Oversize D769.8.A6 J363 1991 5 vols.

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA) / [Electronic Resource]

The Lost Years, 1942-1946 
D753.8.E4

Morning Glory, Evening Shadow:  Yamato Ichihashi and his Internment Writings, 1942-1945 
D769.8.A6 I 25 1997

Rabbit in the Moon 
D769.8.A6 R33 1999   Video Collection Wilson 2 West

Summary:  A documentary/memoir about the lingering effects of the World War II internment of the Japanese American community. Visually stunning and emotionally compelling, the film examines issues that ultimately created deep rifts within the Japanese American community, reveals the racist subtext of the loyalty questionnaire and exposes the absurdity of the military draft within the camps. These testimonies are linked by the filmmakers' own experiences in the camps and placed in a larger historical context by the  director.

Histories

The Bamboo People : the law and Japanese-Americans
KF4846 .C5

Justice at War
KF7224.5.I76 1983

The Mass Internment of Japanese Americans and the Quest for Legal Redress
D769.8.A6 M33 1994

Native American Aliens: Disloyalty and the Renunciation of Citizenship by Japanese Americans During World War II
KF7224.5.C64 1985

Storied Lives:  Japanese American Students and World War II
D753.8.O38 1999

Tokyo Rose: Victim of Propaganda 
CT275.T717 T645 1995  Video Collection Wilson 2 West

Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II
D769.8.A6 O36 1996

Without Due Process: Japanese Americans and World War II
Wilson 2W Video  D769.8.A6 W57 1992

 

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