Bibliography

The Bibliography presents books, articles and documents related to the Japanese American evacuation and relocation during World War II. Online references are also included in the Electronic Resources.

Citations are annotated "Oxy" to flag resources in the general holdings of Occidental College Library and their titles are hotlinked to the Library catalog record. [This page published 1 July 2005]

Table of Contents

Student Relocation

Secondary Sources
Scholarly works produced to provide historical analysis of the Japanese American student relocation.

Primary Sources
Works produced contemporaneously with the Japanese American evacuation and relocation in relation to current events pertaining to the Japanese American student relocation.

General

Secondary Sources
Scholarly works produced to provide historical analysis of the Japanese American evacuation and relocation, Remsen Bird, Occidental College and related events.

Primary Sources
Works produced contemporaneously with the Japanese American evacuation and relocation or in relation to current events pertaining to the Japanese American internment.

Student Relocation

Secondary Sources 

Allan, Austin W. “From Concentration Camp to Campus: A History of the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, 1942-1946.” Diss. University of Cincinnati, 2001. [OXY]

Burton, Jeffrey F. “Confinement and Ethnicity: an Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites.” 1 Sept. 2000. Western Archaeological and Conservation Center of the National Park Service. 26 Oct. 2004. http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/anthropology74/index.htm
 [OXY; also listed under electronic resources; contains digital images]

Hall, Evaline Jenness. “Japanese American College Students during the Second World War: The Politics of Relocation.” Diss. Indian University, 1994.

“Hirasaki National Resource Center Bookmarks.” Japanese American National Museum. 1 Nov. 2004. http://www.janm.org/nrc/bkmarks.php [A list of electronic resources related to Japanese Americans with a section specifically related to Japanese American Internment; also listed under electronic resources]

“Interrupted Lives: Japanese American Students at the University of Washington, 1941-1942.” 29 March 2004. University of Washington Libraries. 1 Nov. 2004. [“This project tells the story of a university and its students — a story of institutional perseverance and individual courage.”]

Ito, Leslie. “Afterword: Nisei Student Relocation Commemorative Fund.” Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II. Gary Okihoro. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. [OXY]

---. “Japanese American Women and the Student Relocation Movement, 1942-1945.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. 21.3 (2000): 1-24. [OXY, periodical]

James, Thomas. Exile Within: The Schooling of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. [Study of various aspects of education in the camp including pre-War Relocation Authority educational programs largely implemented by Japanese Americans themselves, the WRA educational philosophy, the resettlement of Nisei college students, and schooling in post-segregation Tule Lake. [OXY]

James, T. “Life Begins with Freedom: the College Nisei, 1942-1945.” History of Education Quarterly 25 (1985): 155-174. [OXY, periodical]

O’Brien, Robert W. “The Changing Role of the College Nisei During the Crisis Period: 1931-1943.” Diss. University of Washington, 1945.

---. The College Nisei. Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1949. [OXY]

Okihiro, Gary Y. Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. [OXY]

Welker, R. Todd. “Utah Schools and the Japanese American Student Relocation Program.” Utah State Historical Quarterly 70.1 (2002): 4-20. 

Primary Sources

Barstow, Robbins W. “Help for Nisei Students.” Christian Century. (1 July 1942): 837. 

Coe, G. A. “Japanese Student Relocation.” International Journal of Religious Education 19.2 (1942): 4. [OXY]

Cosgrove, Margaret. “Relocation of American-Japanese Students.” Journal of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars 18.3 (April 1943): 221-226.

“Japanese Americans ‘Evacuated’ from UW.” Columns, May 1942.

O'Brian, Robert W. “Reaction of the College Nisei to Japan and Japanese Foreign Policy from the Invasion of Manchuria to Pearl Harbor.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 36 (1945): 19-28. [OXY]

O'Brian, Robert W. “Student Relocation.” Common Ground 3.4 (Summer 1943): 75. [OXY]

National Japanese American Student Relocation Council. From Camp to College: The Story of Japanese American Student Relocation. Philadelphia: NJASRC, 1945. [Oxy]

---. How to Help Japanese American Student Relocation. Philadelphia: NJASRC, 1944. [Oxy]

“Nisei Students in Junior College: A Symposium.” Junior College Journal 9.1 (Sept.1943): 5-11. [OXY]

“Nisei Students Speak for Themselves: A Symposium.” Junior College Journal 9.6 (Feb. 1944): 243-252. [OXY]

Provinse, John H. “Relocation of Japanese-American College Students: Acceptance of a Challenge.” Higher Education 1.8 (16 Apr. 1945). [OXY, periodical]

“Relocating Japanese American Students.” Education for Victory 1.14 (15 Sept. 1942). 

Richardson, O.D. “Nisei Evacuees—Their Challenge to Education.” Junior College Journal 8.1 (Sept. 1942): 6-12. [OXY]

Walton, O.M. “Student President is a Japanese-American.” Time 14 April 1943: 467. [OXY, periodical]

General

Secondary Sources

America At Its Best : Legacy of Two Nisei Patriots. Dir. Vince Matsudaira. Videocassette. Seattle : Nisei Veterans Committee, 2001. [OXY]

Bosworth, Allan R. America’s Concentration Camps. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, Inc., 1967. [OXY]

Burton, Jeffery F. Confinement and Ethnicity: an overview of World War II Japanese American relocation sites.  Tucson : Western Archeological and Conservation Center, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 2000 <http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/anthropolgy74/>

Contrat, Maisie and Richard Contrat. Executive Order 9066: The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press for the California Historical Society, 1972. [OXY]

Daniels, Rodgers. Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. Ed. Eric Foner. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. [OXY]

Girdner, Audrie. The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans During World War II. New York: Macmillan, 1969. [OXY]

Hansen, Arthur A. and Betty E. Mitson. Voices Long Silent: An Oral Inquiry into the Japanese American Evacuation. Fullerton, CA: California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program, 1974. 

Hansen, Arthur A. ed. Japanese American World War II evacuation oral history project. Westport : Meckler, 1991.

Harth, Erica ed. Last Witness : Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans. New York : Palgrave, 2001. [OXY]

Hatamiya, Leslie. Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993. [OXY]

Hayashi, Ann Koto. Face of the Enemy, Heart of a Patriot: Japanese-American Internment Narratives. New York: Garland, 1995. 

Hayashi, Brian Masaru. Democratizing the Enemy : The Japanese American Internment. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2004. [OXY]

Higa, Karin M. ed. The View From Within : Japanese American Art From the Internment Camps, 1942-1945. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994. [OXY]

Jacoby, Harold S. Tule Lake : From Relocation to Segregation. Grass Valley : Comstock Bonanza Press, 1996. [OXY]

Kashima, Tetsuden. Judgment without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. [OXY]

Matsumoto, Valerie. “Japanese American Women During World War II.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 8.1 (1984). [OXY, periodical]

Muki, Gary. Teaching about Japanese-American Internment. Bloomington : ERIC clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, 2000. [OXY]

Muller, Eric L. Free to die for their country : the story of the Japanese American draft resisters in World War II. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Myer, Dillon S. Uprooted Americans; the Japanese Americans and the War Relocation Authority During World War II. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1971. [OXY]

Nagata, Donna K. Legacy of Injustice : Exploring the Cross-Generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment. New York: Plenum Press, 1993. [OXY]

Ng, Wendy L. Japanese American Internment During World War II : A History and Reference Guide. Westport : Greenwood Press, 2002. [OXY]

Nishimoto, Richard S. Inside an American concentration camp : Japanese American resistance at Poston, Arizona. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 1995.

Okihiro, Gary Y and Joan Myers. Whispered Silences : Japanese Americans and World War II. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1996. [OXY] 

Okimoto, Ruth Y. Sharing a Desert Home: Life on the Colorado River Indian Reservation. Berkeley: News from Native California, 2001.

Okubo, Miné. Citizen 13660. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983. [OXY]

Olson, Joan. “Remsen DuBois Bird: A Biography.” Diss. Occidental College, 1977. [OXY]

Paule, Jean. "The Mary Norton Clapp Library at Occidental College." Typescript. Occidental College, 2002. [OXY]

Perl, Katrina. Two Faces of a Man: Remsen Bird Resisting Executive Order 9066 with the Support of the United States Government. Diss. Occidental College, 2001. [OXY, spec. coll.]

Ricci, Steven et al. Executive Order 9066. CD-ROM. Los Angeles: Grolier Educational, 1998. [OXY]

Robinson, Gerald H. Elusive Truth : Four Photographers at Manzanar.  Nevada City : Carl Mautz Publishing, 2002. [OXY].

Rolle, Andrew F. Occidental College: A Centennial History. Los Angeles: Occidental College, 1985. [OXY]

Schaffer, Robert. “Cracks in the Consensus: Defending the Rights of Japanese Americans During World War II.” Radical History Review 72.3 (1998): 84-120. [OXY, periodical]

---. “Opposition to Internment: Defending Japanese American Rights During World War II.” Historian 61.3 (1999): 597-619. [OXY, periodical]

Smith, Paige. Democracy on Trial: The Japanese American Evacuation and Relocation in World War II. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995. [OXY]

Something Strong Within : Home Movies from America's Concentration Camps. Dir. Robert A Nakamua. Videocassette. Los Angeles : Japanese American National Museum, 1994. [OXY]

Taylor, Sandra C. Jewel of the desert : Japanese American internment at Topaz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. [OXY]

Weglyn, Michi. Years of Infamy : The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps. New York : Morrow, 1976. [OXY]

Yamamoto, Hisaye. Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001. [OXY]

Primary Sources

Adams, Ansel. Born free and equal : photographs of the loyal Japanese-Americans at Manzanar Relocation Center,   Inyo County, California. New York: U.S. Camera, 1944. [OXY]

California. Legislature. Senate. Fact Finding Committee on Japanese Resettlement. Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Japanese resettlement : created by Senate Resolution no. 122, 1943. Sacramento : Senate of the State of California, 1945. [OXY]

De Cristoforo, Violet Kazue ed. May sky : There is Always Tomorrow : An Anthology of Japanese American Concentration Camp Kaiko Haiku. Los Angeles : Sun & Moon Press, 1997. [OXY]

Egami, Hatsuye. The Evacuation Diary of Hatsuye Egami. Ed. Claire Gorfinkle. Pasadena: International Productions, 1995 [OXY].

Gesensway, Deborah. Beyond words : images from America's concentration camps. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1987. [OXY]

Higa, Karin M. ed. The View From Within : Japanese American Art From the Internment Camps, 1942-1945. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994. [OXY]

Kikuchi, Charles. The Kikuchi diary; chronicle from an American concentration camp; the Tanforan journals of Charles Kikuchi. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973. [OXY]

Tateishi, John, ed. And justice for all : an oral history of the Japanese American detention camps. New York : Random House, 1984.

United States. An Act to Direct the Secretary of the Interior to Conduct a Study of the Site Commonly Known as Eagledale Ferry Dock at Taylor Avenue in the State of Washington for Potential Inclusion in the National Park System. Washington D. C. Government Printing Office, 2002. [OXY]

United States Commission on Wartime and Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Washington: GPO, 1992. [OXY]

United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Authorizing the Go for Broke National Veterans Association Foundation to establish a memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor Japanese American patriotism in World War II : report (to accompany H.J. Res. 271). Washington D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1992.

---. Committee on Resources. Bainbridge Island Japanese-American Memorial Study Act of 2002 : report (to accompany H.R. 3747) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). Washington D.C. : United States Government Printing Office, 2002. [OXY]

---. Committee on the Judiciary. Civil Liberties Act Amendments of 1992 : report (to accompany H.R. 4551) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). Washington D. C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1992

---. Supporting the goals of the Japanese American, German American, and Italian American communities in recognizing a national day of remembrance to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the restriction, exclusion, and internment of individuals and families during World War II : report (to accompany H. Res. 56) (including committee cost estimate). Washington D. C. : United States Government Printing Office, 2004.

---. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Crediting periods of internment during World War II to certain federal employees of Japanese ancestry. Hearing ... Eighty-sixth Congress, second session, on H.R. 7810, a bill to credit periods of internment during World War II to certain federal employees of Japanese ancestry for purposes of the Civil Service Retirement Act and the Annual and Sick Leave Act of 1951. June 13, 1960. Washington: United States Government Print Office, 1960. [OXY]

United States Department of the Interior. War Relocation Authority. Community Government in War Relocation Centers. Washington: GPO, 1946. [OXY]

---. War Relocation Authority. Impounded People: Japanese Americans in the Relocation Centers. Washington: GPO, 1946. [OXY]

---. War Relocation Authority. Wartime Exile: The Exclusion of the Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Washington: GPO, 1946. [OXY]

---. War Relocation Authority. WRA, A Story of Human Conservation. Washington: GPO, 1946. [OXY]

University of California. Library. Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement; Catalog of Material in the General Library. Berkeley, CA: University of California General Library, 1958. [OXY]