MANZANAR  &  world war ii internments

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Books and Printed Materials

 (Manzanar collection, on reserve, in Valley Writers, in fiction or nonfiction)

Adams, Ansel

            Manzanar                                                                                         

            Born Free and Equal:  The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans,

             Manzanar Relocation Center, Inyo County, California

Bosworth, Allan R.

            America’s Concentration Camps  

Burton, Jeffery, et al. 

            Confinement and Ethnicity:  An Overview of World War II Japanese American  Relocation Sites                             

Burton, Jeffery, Jeremy Haines, and Mary Farrell

            I  REI  TO:  Archeological Investigations at the Manzanar Relocation Center Cemetery, Manzanar National Historic Site, California

Chan, Jeffery Paul, Frank Chin, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Wong (Eds.)         

            The Big Aiiieeeee!  An Anthology of Chinese American and              

               Japanese American Literature                                              

Conrat, Maisie and Richard

            Executive Order 9066:  The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans 

Crost, Lyn

            Honor by Fire:  Japanese Americans at War in Europe and the Pacific        

Daniels, Roger

            Concentration Camps:  North America Japanese in the United States

                and Canada during World War II

Daniels, Roger (Ed.)

            Japanese Americans:  From Relocation to Redress

Davis, Daniel S.

            Behind Barbed Wire:  The Imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II

DiStasi, Lawrence (Ed.)

            Una Storia Segreta:  The Secret History of Italian American

                Evacuation and Internment during World War II

Drinnon, Richard

            Keeper of Concentration Camps:  Dillon S. Myer and American Racism

Duus, Masayo Umezawa

            Unlikely Liberators:  The Men of the 100th and 442nd

Egami, Hatsuye

            The Evacuation Diary of Hatsuye Egami

Ehrlich, Gretel

            Heart Mountain

            Farewell to Manzanar:  Video Study Guide

Gesensway, Deborah and Mindy Roseman                                             

          Beyond Words: Images from America’s Concentration Camps  

Guterson, David

            Snow Falling on Cedars

Hansen, Arthur A., et al.

An Annotated Bibliography for Manzanar National Historic Site                     

Harth, Erica (Ed.)

            Last Witnesses:  Reflections on the Wartime Internment of  Japanese Americans

Higashide, Seiichi

            Adios to Tears:  The Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian Internee in

             U.S. Concentration Camps

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D. Houston      

            Farewell to Manzanar

            Farewell to Manzanar and Related Readings

            Farewell to Manzanar and Related Readings:  Sourcebook                               

Inada, Fusao Inada                          

            Drawing the Line                                                                       

            Legends from Camp

            Only What We Could Carry (Ed.)  

Iriye, Akira

            Power and Culture:  The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945                         

Japanese American Citizens League

            A Lesson in American History:  The Japanese American

              Experience (Curriculum and Resource Guide

              with three videos)                                                                               

Japanese American World War II Evacuation Oral History Project

            Part I:  Internees; Part II:  Administrators                                     

Kikuchi, Charles

            The Kikuchi Diary:  Chronicle from an American Concentration Camp:

                 The Tanforan Journals of Charles Kikuchi

Kim, Kristine                                                                         

            Henry Sugimoto:  Painting an American Experience                                           

Kitano, Harry

            The Japanese Americans (The Immigrant Experience)

            Japanese Americans:  The Evolution of a Subculture

Kogawa, Joy

            Obasan

Kono, Robert H.

            The Last Fox:  A Novel of the 100th/442nd RCT

Liset, Louis

            Imprisoned Apart:  The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple Manzanar Resources (PC Library  Notebook)    

Masumoto, David Mas                                                        

            Country Voices:  The Oral History of a Japanese American

               Family Farm Community       

            Epitaph for a Peach                                                       

            Harvest Son                                                                    

Matsuo, Dorothy

            Boyhood to War:  History and Anecdotes of the 442nd RCT

Miyake, Perry

            21st Century Manzanar:  A Novel

Muller, Eric L.

            Free to Die for their Country:  The Story of the Japanese American

                  Draft Resisters in World War II

Nagata, Donna K.

            Legacy of Injustice:  Exploring the Cross-Generational Impact of the

                 Japanese American Internment

Okada, John

            No-No Boy:  A Novel

Okihiro, Gary Y.

            Margins and Mainstreams:  Asians in American History and Culture

            Storied Lives:  Japanese American Students and World War II

Okubo, Miné

            Citizen 13660

           Personal Justice Denied:  Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians

Peterson, William

            Japanese Americans:  Oppression and Success

           Reflections:  In Three Self-Guided Tours of Manzanar      

Tateishi, John

            And Justice for All:  An Oral History of the Japanese American  Detention Camps

           Topaz Moon:  Chiura Obata’s Art of the Internment                     

Tunnell, Michael O. and George W. Chilcoat

            The Children of TOPAZ:  The Story of a Japanese-American

             Internment Camp:  Based on a Classroom Diary

Uchida, Yoshiko

            Desert Exile:  The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

 

 

 

Background Photograph of Military Police Guard Post By Lorie Barker

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