Japanese American Incarceration Camp Research Guide

Anthology of primary sources regarding the Japanese American camps during WWII. Find in CSU+. Allow three weeks for delivery.

"When Mary Matsuda Gruenewald was seventeen years old she and her family were evacuated to an internment camp for Japanese-Americans, along with nearly 120,000 other people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast. She tells her story of imprisonment from the heart and mind of a woman now eighty years old who experienced the challenges and wounds of internment at a crucial point in her young life. She captures the emotional and psychological essence of growing up in the midst of this profound dislocation and injustice. No longer willing to stay within what she describes as "the self-imposed barbed-wire fences built around my experiences in the camps," Gruenewald breaks her silence as a Nisei with the publication of her first book."--Jacket. Find in CSU+. Allow three weeks for delivery.

A “clear-eyed, carefully researched but nonetheless passionate book” that is “rich with the closely observed details of camp life.”

Presents 10 intriguing essays about one of the largest and most remote of America's concentration camps. Find in CSU+. Allow three weeks for delivery.

Ornamental gardens created by Japanese American inmates in World War II incarceration camps offer new insights into landscape history, theory, and interpretation. This study argues that the camp gardens were continuations of pre-incarceration gardenbuilding traditions, human and cultural responses to the camp landscapes, restorative agents that fostered communal healing, and the results of cultural cohesion and community competition.

Chapter from the Book Nikkei Baseball which discusses how many Japanese Americans in the camps passed the time playing baseball.