Confinement and Ethnicity
Title | Confinement and Ethnicity PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffery F. Burton |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | 465 |
Release | 2011-07-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0295801514 |
Confinement and Ethnicity documents in unprecedented detail the various facilities in which persons of Japanese descent living in the western United States were confined during World War II: the fifteen “assembly centers” run by the U.S. Army’s Wartime Civil Control Administration, the ten “relocation centers” created by the War Relocation Authority, and the internment camps, penitentiaries, and other sites under the jurisdiction of the Justice and War Departments. Originally published as a report of the Western Archeological and Conservation Center of the National Park Service, it is now reissued in a corrected edition, with a new Foreword by Tetsuden Kashima, associate professor of American ethnic studies at the University of Washington. Based on archival research, field visits, and interviews with former residents, Confinement and Ethnicity provides an overview of the architectural remnants, archeological features, and artifacts remaining at the various sites. Included are numerous maps, diagrams, charts, and photographs. Historic images of the sites and their inhabitants -- including several by Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams -- are combined with photographs of present-day settings, showing concrete foundations, fence posts, inmate-constructed drainage ditches, and foundations and parts of buildings, as well as inscriptions in Japanese and English written or scratched on walls and rocks. The result is a unique and poignant treasure house of information for former residents and their descendants, for Asian American and World War II historians, and for anyone interested in the facts about what the authors call these “sites of shame.”
Manzanar National Historic Site, California
Title | Manzanar National Historic Site, California PDF eBook |
Author | Harlan D. Unrau |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 516 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Concentration camps |
ISBN |
Manzanar National Historic Site, California
Title | Manzanar National Historic Site, California PDF eBook |
Author | United States. National Park Service |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 2 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Historic sites |
ISBN |
Cultural Landscape Report
Title | Cultural Landscape Report PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | National Park Service Division of Publications |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
In 1942, the United States government ordered more than 110,000 men, women, and children to leave their homes and detained them in remote, military-style camps. Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II. This book is about the site and its history.
Farewell to Manzanar
Title | Farewell to Manzanar PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780618216208 |
A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War internment.
Establishing the Manzanar National Historic Site in the State of California
Title | Establishing the Manzanar National Historic Site in the State of California PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 10 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | California |
ISBN |
Life After Manzanar
Title | Life After Manzanar PDF eBook |
Author | Naomi Hirahara |
Publisher | Heyday.ORIM |
Total Pages | 302 |
Release | 2018-04-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1597144460 |
“A compelling account of the lives of Japanese and Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II . . . instructive and moving.”—Nippon.com From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the “Resettlement”: the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been unjustly imprisoned during World War II, were finally released from custody. Given twenty-five dollars and a one-way bus ticket to make a new life, some ventured east to Denver and Chicago to start over, while others returned to Southern California only to face discrimination and an alarming scarcity of housing and jobs. Hirahara and Lindquist weave new and archival oral histories into an engaging narrative that illuminates the lives of former internees in the postwar era, both in struggle and unlikely triumph. Readers will appreciate the painstaking efforts that rebuilding required and will feel inspired by the activism that led to redress and restitution—and that built a community that even now speaks out against other racist agendas. “Through this thoughtful story, we see how the harsh realities of the incarceration experience follow real lives, and how Manzanar will sway generations to come. When you finish the last chapter you will demand to read more.”—Gary Mayeda, national president of the Japanese American Citizens League “An engaging, well-written telling of how former Manzanar detainees played key roles in remembering and righting the wrong of the World War II incarceration.”—Tom Ikeda, executive director of Densho