References/Bibliography

For Teachers, Parents and Other Adult Readers

Burton, Jeffrey F. et al. "Confinement and Ethnicity." University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2000.
An overview of WW2 Japanese American Relocation sites.

Daniels, Roger. "Prisoners Without Trial, Japanese Americans in World War II." Hill and Wang 2004 Revised edition
"… clear and concise history of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II" - Alice Yang Murray, UC Santa Cruz

Dempster, Brian Komei, editor. "From Our Side of the Fence: Growing up in America's Concentration Camp." Kearny Street workshop, San Francisco, 2003
A collection of stories from America's WWII incarceration camps.

Fun and Games Committee, Fun and Games. "Small Kid Time in Hawaii." Hawaii Hiroshima Study Group. Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, 2001, HI.
A book about the world of Japanese children in Hawaii in the early 1900's, describing the games and rules to their outdoor games and toys and how to make them.

Fugita, Stephen/Fernandez, Marilyn. "Altered Lives, Enduring Community." University of Washington Press. 2004. WA
Japanese Americans remember their WW2 incarceration.

Gruenewald, Mary Matsuda. "Looking Like the Enemy." NewSage Press, Troutdale, Oregon, 2005
The story by a young Nisei girl imprisoned with her family at Tule Lake and Heart Mountain Camp

Inada, Lawson Fusao. "Only What We Carry." Heyday Books. Berkeley, CA. 2000
The internment experience.

Kashima, Tetsuden. "Judgment Without Trial - Japanese American Imprisonment During The World War II." University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2003

Magden, Ronald E. Furusato. "Nikkei Jinkai: Tacoma Japanese Community Service." 1998
History of the Japanese in Pierce County and Tacoma.

Neiwert, David A. "Strawberry Days, How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community." Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2005.
History of Bellevue area Japanese immigrant's farm life and wartime removal.

Okada, John. "No, No Boy." University Press, Seattle and London, 1998.
A novel by a Seattle Native who served in the US Army in WWII. Story includes draft resisters.

Otsuka, Julie. "When the Emperor Was Divine." Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2002
One family's banishment from the American dream and days of exile.

Patneaude, David. "Thin Wood Walls." Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2004.
A powerful story of a Nisei boy who grows up quickly in a changed world.

Shirai, Noboru. "Tule Lake, An Issei Memoir." Sacramento: Muteki Press, Translated by Ray Hosuda, 2001.
Story of an Issei and his family before, during and following World War II.

Shirly, Orville C. Americans, "The Story of the 442 Combat Team." Washington Infantry Journal Press, 1946,
A chronicle of the all Nisei army unit during WWII.

Stanley, Jerry. "I Am An American." Crown Publishers, New York, 1994
History through the eyes of a high school student from Japanese immigration to the political and military events of WW II.

Sone, Monica. "Nisei Daughter." University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1979.
A Nisei woman's story growing up in Seattle's waterfront and World War 2 incarceration.

Takami, David A. "Divided Destiny, A History of Japanese Americans in Seattle." University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1988
History tracing more than 100 years of Seattle Area Japanese Americans.

Weglyn, Michi Nishiura. "Years of Infamy." University of Washington Press. 1976/1996.
Untold story of America's Concentration camps.

 

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