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Resources 

Books/Journals

Burton, Jeffrey F., et al. Confinement and Ethnicity: an Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites. University of Washington Press, 2011.

Dusselier, Jane. “Embodied Identity? The Life and Art of Estelle Ishigo.” Feminist Studies, vol. 32, no. 3, 2006, p. 534., doi:10.2307/20459104.

 

Grant, Kimi Cunningham. Silver like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment. Pegasus Books, 2013.

Hansen, A. A. “The 1944 Nisei Draft at Heart Mountain, Wyoming: Its Relationship to the Historical Representation of the World War II Japanese

 

American Evacuation.” OAH Magazine of History, vol. 10, no. 4, 1996, pp. 48–60., doi:10.1093/maghis/10.4.48.

 

Inouye, Frank T. “Immediate Origins of the Heart Mountain Experience.” Peace & Change, vol. 23, no. 2, 1998, pp. 148–166., doi:10.1111/0149-0508.00078.

“Lester C. Hunt Papers.” American Heritage Center, digitalcollections.uwyo.edu.

“Milward L. Simpson Papers.” American Heritage Center, digitalcollections.uwyo.edu.

 

Muller, Eric L. Free to Die for Their Country: the Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II. University of Chicago Press, 2003.

 

Reeves, Richard. Infamy: the Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II. Picador, 2016.

Takei, George, et al. They Called Us Enemy. Top Shelf Productions, 2019.

 

Warren, Andrea. Enemy Child: the Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp during World War II. Margaret. Ferguson Books/Holiday House, 2019.

Weglyn, Michi. Years of Infamy: the Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps. University of Washington Press, 2003.

                                               

Films/Documentaries

 

Challenge to Democracy, Dir. U.S. War Relocation Authority. 1944. Documentary. YouTube. https://archive.org/details/Challeng1944

Children of the Camps. https://www.amazon.com/Children-Camps-Satsuki-Ina

 

Children of the Internment. https://www.amazon.com/Children-Internment-German-Families-Camps.

 

Come See the Paradise. Dir. Alan Parker. Perf. Dennis Quaid. 1990. www.amazon.com

 

Go for Broke (History of Nisei soldiers in training).YouTube. https://youtu.be/001VYmrrHL8 

Heart Mountain Three Years in a Relocation Center. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRwnevYkdFQ

 

Japanese American Soldiers in Italy. U.S. War Relocation Authority. 

https://youtu.be/sLHsC6wkmH8

 

The Rising Tied. Artist: Fort Minor. 2005. Hip hop music. YouTube. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pugs2Jv4Jvk

Digital Archives

American Heritage Center.

http://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu

Ancestry,https://www.ancestry.com

Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, http://heartmountain.org

Japanese American Citizens League, https://jacl.org

Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov

National Archives, https://aad.archives.gov

University of California, Berkley, 

https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/mrcvault/videographies/theme/japanese-american-internment

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