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Series
Publications in anthropology) volume 74
Publisher
Western Archeological and Conservation Center
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Through the presentation of text, photographs, maps, and illustrations, this volume details the physical features of all of the facilities used by U.S. government to confine people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. Each of the facilities is treated separately, with coverage including treatments of the relatively historically neglected internment camps.
25) No-no boy
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
In the aftermath of World War II, Ichiro, a Japanese American, returns home to Seattle to make a new start after two years in an internment camp and two years in prison for refusing to be drafted.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Julie Otsuka’s commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination—both physical and emotional—of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point of view—the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1942 after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, twelve-year-old Harry Yakamoto and his family are forced to move to an internment camp where they must learn to survive in the desert of California under the watch of armed guards. Includes section about the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Personal stories and moving archival footage tell the untold story of how Japanese internees were used by the US government to help develop a Native American reservation during World War II. The film begins with the opening credits of the US government film Japanese relocation, included on the disc. Disc also includes deleted scenes and filmmaker biography.
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The United States entered World War II after a surprise attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. U.S. officials feared that Japanese Americans would betray their country and help Japan. Nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans were taken from their homes and moved into relocation centers, which some viewed as concentration camps. The internees, backed by many other Americans, believed that their fundamental rights as U.S. citizens had been denied. Years...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
One World, Many Stories PreK - 2nd
Picture Books About Libraries
Description
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast—elderly people, children, babies—now live in prison camps like Minidoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesn’t know when or if she will ever leave. Trying not to think of the life she once had, she works in the camp’s tiny library, taking solace in pages bursting with color and...
Author
Publisher
Regan Arts
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Serving as a Supreme Court law clerk during World War II, Caswell "Cash" Harrison investigates the suspicious death of a colleague that may be related to the debate within the U.S. government surrounding the imprisonment of thousands of Japanese Americans.
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