Confinement and Ethnicity

Confinement and Ethnicity
Author: Jeffery F. Burton
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2011-07-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0295801514

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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.”

Japanese American Internment during World War II

Japanese American Internment during World War II
Author: Wendy Ng
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2001-12-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0313096554

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The internment of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II is one of the most shameful episodes in American history. This history and reference guide will help students and other interested readers to understand the history of this action and its reinterpretation in recent years, but it will also help readers to understand the Japanese American wartime experience through the words of those who were interned. Why did the U.S. government take this extraordinary action? How was the evacuation and resettlement handled? How did Japanese Americans feel on being asked to leave their homes and live in what amounted to concentration camps? How did they respond, and did they resist? What developments have taken place in the last twenty years that have reevaluated this wartime action? A variety of materials is provided to assist readers in understanding the internment experience. Six interpretive essays examine key aspects of the event and provide new interpretations based on the most recent scholarship. Essays include: - A short narrative history of the Japanese in America before World War II - The evacuation - Life within barbed wire-the assembly and relocation centers - The question of loyalty-Japanese Americans in the military and draft resisters - Legal challenges to the evacuation and internment - After the war-resettlement and redress A chronology of events, 26 biographical profiles of important figures, the text of 10 key primary documents--from Executive Order 9066, which authorized the internment camps, to first-person accounts of the internment experience--a glossary of terms, and an annotative bibliography of recommended print sources and web sites provide ready reference value. Every library should update its resources on World War II with this history and reference guide.

The Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II

The Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II
Author: John Davenport
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2010
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 1438131275

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Combines historical information with photographs, primary source excerpts, and first-person narratives to examine the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and its implications.

World War II Japanese American Internment Reports

World War II Japanese American Internment Reports
Author: U. S. Military
Publisher:
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2018-05-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781982931308

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This is a unique federal report providing information on the facilities used in the World War II internment of Japanese Americans as part of the National Historic Landmarks Program of the National Park Service. "Commemorating sites related to Japanese Americans' wartime experience should foster the preservation of these sites. Their preservation will make them viable tools for public education and on-going reminders of a shared remorse over the treatment of a group of American citizens. As eligible properties are designated National Historic Landmarks, they will be commemorated as tangible reminders that government initiatives -- even those taken in the guise of public safety -- can be extreme, discriminatory, contrary to basic freedoms we embrace, and a violation of individual rights."Part 1 - Introduction * Part 2 - Historic Context * The Prelude To Relocation * Removal * Confinement * Alternatives To Confinement * Resistance And Legal Challenges * Freedom Restored * Retrospective * Part 3 - Associated Property Types * WCCA Assembly Centers * WRA Relocation Centers * Internment/Detention Facilities * U.S. Army Facilities * Japanese American Wartime Communities * Other Property Types * Part 4 - Survey Methodology * Table 2. Wartime Properties Not Specified In Public Law 102-248 * Part 5 - Registration Guidelines For National Historic Landmarks * Evaluation Challenges * National Historic Landmark Criteria For Evaluation * National Historic Landmark Exceptions * Applying The Criteria * Applying Criterion 1 * Applying Criterion 2 * Applying Criterion 4 * Applying Criterion 5 * Applying Criterion 6 * Applying The Exceptions * Evaluating Aboveground Integrity * Evaluating Archeological Integrity * Part 6 - Survey Results * WCCA Assembly Centers * Fresno Assembly Center * Marysville Assembly Center (Arboga Assembly Center) * Mayer Assembly Center * Merced Assembly Center * Pinedale Assembly Center * Pomona Assembly Center * Portland Assembly Center * Puyallup Assembly Center * Sacramento Assembly Center (Walerga Assembly Center) * Salinas Assembly Center * Stockton Assembly Center * Tulare Assembly Center * Turlock Assembly Center * WAR RELOCATION AUTHORITY RELOCATION CENTERS * Relocation Centers Designated National Historic Landmarks * Granada Relocation Center (Camp Amache) * Heart Mountain Relocation Center * Manzanar Relocation Center * Rohwer Relocation Center and Memorial Cemetery * Topaz Relocation Center (Central Utah Relocation Center) * Tule Lake Relocation Center/Tule Lake Segregation Center * Other WRA Relocation Centers * Gila River Relocation Center * Jerome Relocation Center * Minidoka Relocation Center * Poston Relocation Center (Colorado River Relocation Center)/Parker Dam Reception Center * Ancillary Relocation Center Facilities (WRA) * Antelope Springs * Cow Creek Camp * INTERNMENT/DETENTION FACILITIES * Department of Justice Facilities * Catalina Prison Camp (BOP facility) * Crystal City Internment Camp (INS facility) * Fort Lincoln Internment Camp (INS facility) * Fort Missoula Internment Camp (INS facility) * Fort Stanton Internment Camp (INS facility) * Kenedy Internment Camp (INS facility) * Kooskia Internment Camp (INS facility) * Old Raton Ranch Camp (INS facility) * Santa Fe Internment Camp (INS facility) * Seagoville Internment Camp (INS facility) * Sharp Park Detention Facility (INS facility) * U.S. Federal Penitentiary, Leavenworth (BOP facility) * U.S. Federal Penitentiary, McNeil Island (BOP facility) * U.S. Immigration Station, Ellis Island (INS facility) * U.S. Immigration Station, Oahu (INS facility) * War Relocation Authority Detention Facilities * Leupp Isolation Camp * Moab Isolation Center * Camp Tulelake * Other Internment/Detention Facilities