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Resources

Books

Roger Daniels, “Relocation, Redress, and the Report: A Historical Appraisal,” in Roger Daniels, Sandra C. Taylor, & Henry H. L. Kitano (Eds.), Japanese Americans, from Relocation to Redress (Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, [Rev. ed.] 1991), 3.

Daniels, Roger and Eric Foner. (Eds.). 1993. Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. Hill & Wang Publishers.

del Rosario, Carina A., Ken Mochizuki, and Dean Wong (Eds.). 2000. A Different Battle: Stories of Asian Pacific American Veterans. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Harth, Erica (Ed.). 2001. Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans.New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hatamiya, Leslie T. (1993). Righting A Wrong: Japanese Americans and The Passage of The Civil Liberties Act of 1988. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Inada, Lawson Fusao. 2000. Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience. Heyday Books.

Murray, Alice Yang (Ed.). (2000). What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? Boston, Massachusetts: Bedford/St. Martin’s.

Okihiro, Gary Y. (1994). Margins and Main Streams: Asians in American History and Culture. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press.

Saito, Natsu Taylor. (2007). From Chinese Exclusion to Guanta´namo Bay: Plenary Power and the Prerogative State. Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado.

Uchida, Yoshiko. (1982) Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

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

Online resources

Freedom for Some: Japanese American Internment Experience: An online exhibit that features materials from the Balch Institute Archives.  Read correspondence, pamphlets, and school books from the Internment camps.

A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution  from the Smithsonian Institution

Conscience and the Constitution. This ITVS documentary delves into the heart of the Japanese American conscience and the choice faced by any group when confronted by mass injustice -- whether to comply or to resist.

Exploring Japanese American Internment through Film & the Internet, from Asian American Media 

JARDA: The Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive, at the University of California

Japanese American During WWII: Internment and Relocation, from the National Archives

"Suffering Under Great Injustice": Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar, from the Library of Congress, American Memory

Explorations: Japanese American Internment, from Digital History

Japanese American National Museum

Mazanar National Historic Site

Film

Children of the Camps: The Documentary. 1999 | 57 mins | VHS, DVD. Producer Satsuki Ina Director/Editor Stephen Holsapple

Unfinished Business - The Japanese American Internment Cases (1985), Director: Steven Okazaki

From a Silk Coccoon: A Japanese American Renunciation Story, 2005. 57 mins  DVD. Director Stephen Holsapple, Producer/Co-Director/Writer Satsuki Ina