CENTRAL LITERARY THEME: Japanese Internment Camps
NOVELS
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Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
A Boy No More by Harry Mazer
The Journal of Ben Uchida, Citizen #13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp by
Barry Denenberg.
Thin Wood Walls by David Patneaude
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
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Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki
The Bracelet by Yoshiko Ushida
So Far From the Sea by Eve Bunting
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow by Amy Lee-Tai
FILMS / VIDEOS
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Time of Fear Ambrica Productions in association with the University of Arkansas
at Little Rock
Beyond Barbed Wire Kit Parker Films, 2001. (225 min.)
GRAPHIC NOVELS
ARTWORK
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Ben Sakoguchi Postcards from Camp paintings
http://www.bensakoguchi.com/series_postcards_from_camp.html
The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment
Camps 1942-1946 by Delphine Hirasuna
Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar.
The Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/
Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans by Ansel Adams
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American Memory Gallery of Japanese Internment
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/99/fear/gallery.html
POEMS
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“Manzanar” by Michiko Mizumoto
“My Mom, Pop, and Me” by Itsuko Taniguchi
“That Damned Fence” by Anonymous
TV SHOWS
INTERNET SOURCES
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The Children of the Camps: The Documentary http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/
Life in Japanese Internment Camps
http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312008/bhjic.html
WWII Japanese Internment: An Interactive Lesson Plan Using Primary Sources
by Deanna Olson
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/teachers/lessons/secondary/internment.asp
InternmentArchives.Com http://www.internmentarchives.com/index.php
Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself lesson plan by Gail Desler
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/99/fear/intro.html
SONGS
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“Kenji” by Fort Minor
BIOGRAPHIES
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The Invisible Thread: An Autobiography by Yoshiko Uchida
FOLKLORE & LEGENDS
HISTORIES
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Dear Miss Breed : True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration
During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference by Joanne
Oppenheim
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I am an American : A True Story of Japanese Internment by Jerry Stanley.
And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps
[compiled by] John Tateishi
Japanese American Internment Camps by Gail Sakurai
Japanese-American Internment in American History by David K. Fremon
And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps
by John Tateishi
Betrayed Trust: The Story of a Deported Issei and His American-Born Family
During WWII by Motomu Akashi
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MISCELLANEOUS
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Cartoon supporting the internment of the Japanese in California, from the
Sacramento Bee (1942)
http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2004/71/expulsion.gif/view?searchterm=internment
Japanese Internment Curriculum – Posters from World War II (anti-Japanese
propaganda) http://bss.sfsu.edu/internment/postersower.html
ESSAYS / ARTICLES
SHORT STORIES