Bibliography of Japanese Americans and America's Concentration Camps
Collins, Donald E. Native American Aliens: Disloyalty and the Renunciation of Citizenship by Japanese Americans During World War II. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, I985. [On "disloyals" at Tule Lake, renunciation of citizenship, and the ordeal o
f seeking its restoration.]
Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. 2 Vols. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1982. [Report of the Congressi
onal commission summarizes the Japanese American World War II experience; the second volume consists of the commission's recommendations for reparations.]
Conrat, Maisie, and Richard Conrat. Executive Order 9066: The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, I972. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, I992. [Photographic exhibi
t catalog of the removal and detention of Japanese Americans.1
Daniels, Roger. Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. New York: Hill and Wang, I993. [Short (I I4 pages of text) overview of the Japanese American World War II experience including a section on the redress movement. Also i
ncludes photographs and a section on recommended reading.]
____________. Sandra C. Taylor, and Harry H. L. Kitano. Japanese Americans: From Relocation to Redress. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, I986. Revised Edition. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 199 I. [Papers coming out of the I9
83 International Conference on Relocation and Redress held in Salt Lake City covering many different aspects of the Japanese American World War II experience.]
Drinnon, Richard. Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism. Berkeley: University of California Press, I987. [Biography of WRA (and later Bureau of Indian Affairs) director Myer.]
Gardiner, C. Harvey. Pawns in a Triangle of Hate: The Peruvian Japanese and the United States. Seattle: University of Washington Press, I98I. [Recounts the story of Peruvian Issue deported from Peru and interned in the U.S. during World War II.]
Ichioka, Yuji, and ed. "Views from Within: The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study." Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, I989. [Papers from a conference reassessing the JERS project held in 1987. Includes articles by Yuji I
chioka, S. Frank Miyamoto, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi and James Hirabayashi, Peter T. Suzuki, Robert F. Spencer, Charles Kikuchi, Dana Y. Takagi, and James M. Sakoda.]
Irons, Peter. Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese American Internment Cases. New York: Oxford University Press, I983. [History of the removal and detention of Japanese Americans which focuses on the Supreme Court challenges of the mass rem
oval and how each side built its case; alleges that Justice Department lawyers concealed evidence disputing the "military necessity" of' the removal.]
James, Thomas. Exile Within: The Schooling of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, I987. [Study of various aspects of education in camp including pre-War Relocation Authority educational programs largely implemente
d by Japanese Americans them selves, the philosophical underpinnings of the WRA educational philosophy, the resettlement of Nisei college students, and schooling in post-segregation Tule Lake.]
Kikuchi, Charles. The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle from an American Concentration Camp. John Modell, ed. and introd. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973. [Diary describing life at Tanforan "Assembly Center" kept while Kikuchi was a participan
t in the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study.]
Nelson, Douglas W. Heart Mountain: The History of an American Concentration Camp. Madison, WI: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976. [Describes life at Heart Mountain and the reaction of the surrounding Wyoming communities; includes a
n extensive account of the draft resistance movement.]
Okihiro, Gary Y. Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865- 1945. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, I991. [Includes several chapters on Hawaii Japanese Americans interned during the war.]
Okubo, Mine. Citizen 13660. New York: Columbia University Press, I946. New York: AMS Press, 1966. New preface by author. New York: Arno Press, I978. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983. [Book of line drawings and text based on the auth
or's experiences at Tanforan Assembly Center and Topaz.]
Tateishi, John. And Justice For All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps. New York: Random House, 1984. [Transcribed oral histories with thirty Japanese Americans" 'focusing on their camp experiences.]
Taylor, Sandra C. Jewel of the Desert: Japanese American Internment at Topaz. Berkeley: Press, I993. [Study of Topaz.]
____________. Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982. [Autobiographical account of removal and detention at Topaz, Utah by well-known author of children's books.]
The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942- 1945.Los Angeles: Japanese American National Museum, UCLA Wright Art Gallery, and UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1992. [Catalog from an exhibit of art produced by
Japanese Americans while in the camps.]
Weglyn, Michi. Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of Americas Concentration Camps. New York: William Morrow & Co., I976. [Overview of the removal and detention of Japanese Americans during World War II.]
