Image: Ansel Adams / Library of Congress.

Articles

Lori Aratani:

• Secret use of census info helped send Japanese Americans to internment camps in WWII.
• Behind a WWII internment camp’s barbed wire, two Scouts forged a bond. It endured when they both entered Congress.
• She fought the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and won: Mitsuye Endo rarely spoke about her role in the Supreme Court case that forced the government to free thousands 75 years ago.

Julie Beck: Two Boy Scouts Met in an Internment Camp, and Grew Up to Work in Congress.

Connie Chiang:

• The shameful stories of environmental injustices at Japanese American incarceration camps during WWII.
• Interviewed: Nature Behind Barbed Wire. See also this review of her book by the same title.

Densho.org:

• “Uprooting Community”: New Book Examines the WWII Mass Incarceration of Japanese Mexicans.
• Did Japanese Americans Have Access to Vaccines in WWII Incarceration Camps?
• See many more resources at Densho here.

Kenneth Dickerman & Timothy Floyd: These haunting photos of an internment camp for Japanese Americans are a reminder of the terrible costs of war.

Emily Anne Epstein: Ansel Adams’s Subversive Images of Japanese Internment.

Tracy Jan: What reparations mean to one American family: Reparations mean more than money for a family whose story includes slavery and Japanese American internment.

National Parks Conservation Association: Amache Japanese American incarceration site on verge of becoming national park site.

Kathleen Massara: The Japanese-American Artist Who Went to the Camps to Help.

John Muyskens and Aaron Steckelberg: Incarceration by executive order: Remembering Japanese American internment camps, 75 years later.

Bradford Pearson: For Japanese-Americans, Housing Injustices Outlived Internment.

Bridget Read: The Memory Keepers: For survivors of Japanese-American incarceration and their descendants in California, documentation has become resistance.

Greg Robinson:

• Parallel Wars: Japanese American and Japanese Canadian Internment Films.
• Defending Nikkei: Hugh MacBeth and the Japanese American Internment.

T. Rees Shapiro: Gordon Hirabayashi, Japanese American who defied internment order, dies at 93.

George Takei: George Takei got reparations. He says they ‘strengthen the integrity of America’.

Carlene Tanigoshi Tinker: I survived a Japanese American internment camp. We cannot forget that history.

Emily Wang: 75 years later, Japanese man recalls bitter internment in US.

Helen Yoshida: What My Grandmother Learned in Her World War II Internment Camp: The author discovers long-forgotten notes from a sewing class—and a new dimension of the Japanese-American experience.

Critiques of the term “Internment Camps”, & Comparisons to “Migrant Detention Centers”

Aaron Freedman: Democracies have dehumanized migrants before: What a French migrant camp teaches us about Trump’s border camps.

Emil Kerenji: Why we resist Holocaust analogies — and why it’s time to embrace them. From our comfortable perches, we may not feel it, but the similarities are striking.

Andrea Pitzer: Concentration Camps Existed Long Before Auschwitz: From Cuba to South Africa, the advent of barbed wire and automatic weapons allowed the few to imprison the many.

Renee Romano: The trauma of internment: What lies ahead for the children in detention.

Brandon Shimoda: We Have Been Here Before: Japanese American incarceration is the blueprint for today’s migrant detention camps.

Noah Kulwin: AOC Is Right — They’re Concentration Camps.      

Videos & Podcasts

Campu Podcast.

Here & Now: Reflecting on the Japanese American internment 80 years after Executive Order 9066.

PBS:

• Children of the Camps.
• Conscience and the Constitution.

New Books Network: Nature Behind Barbed Wire.

For Teachers

See resources from:

• Facing History & Ourselves.
• The New York Times.
• The Stanford History Education Group.
• The Zinn Education Project.

Books

Ansel Adams: Photographs of Manzanar.

Selfa A. Chew: Uprooting Community: Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.

Connie Y. Chiang: Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration.

Roger Daniels: Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II.

Jane E. Dusselier: Artifacts of Loss: Crafting Survival in Japanese American Concentration Camps.

Linda Gordon & Gary Y. Okihiro: Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment.

Mary Matusda Gruenewald: Looking Like the Enemy.

Gordon Hirabayashi: A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States.

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston: Farewell to Manzanar.

Lawson Fusao Inada:

• Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience.
• Legends From Camp.

Richard S. Nishimoto: Inside an American Concentration Camp: Japanese American Resistance at Poston, Arizona.

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

Greg Robinson:

• By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans.
• A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America.

John E. Schmitz: Enemies among Us: The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War.

George Takei: They Called Us Enemy.

Mitsuye Yamada: Camp Notes and Other Writings.

Other Resources

See many excellent resources at Densho.org.

Dialogues on the Amache Archaeology Collection Online Exhibit.

DU Amache Research Project.

Library of Congress: Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar.

Poetry Foundation: the poetry of Lawson Fusao Inada.