Abundant scholarship analyzes the United States' incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, but the subject of religion in the camps and religious responses to the incarceration has been long overlooked. The government promised freedom of religion in the camps while encouraging Japanese ...
Steps to a New World Order: Ecumenism and Racial Integration during the World War II Incarceration of Japanese AmericansSteps to a New World Order: Ecumenism and Racial Integration during the World War II Incarceration of Japanese AmericansReligious historyAmerican...
Historical texts, oral testimony, and scholarship document vividly the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II — the loss of private property and personal belongings, and the emotional and psychological suffering, that the imprisonment caused. Yet there is very little visual evidence in...
Between 1942 and 1945, the United States governmentincarceratedmore than 10,000 Japanese Americans at theGranada Relocation Center, an internment camp in southeastern Colorado that was also known as Amache. Almost 80 years after the end of World War II, the site is finally receiving...
While official government photographs from the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II has received scholarly attention, private photographsfrom the Incarceration are also valuable to the reconstruction of personal Camp memories. Using my family's photographs, I conducted oral history intervi...
“As camps closed throughout 1945 and 1946, Japanese Americans began their reverse migration back to the lives they had been forced to leave behind,” explains the episode’shost, archivistRihoko Ueno. “They had lost their homes, jobs, businesses and belongings. Many returned...
David put a public face on the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans for generations that passed through his store, read the exclusion order framed on the wall, looked through his shelves of Asian Americana and Pacific Northwest history, and stoipped to talk to him about redress, the resi...
and compiled by Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at Tule Lake, California, during World War II. We will discuss some of the ethical considerations that have arisen in the course of translating this material, including our obligations to descendants of Tule Lake incarcerees. Panelists: Fran...
In 1941, after the Japanese bombedPearl Harbor, the U.S. government, citing “military necessity,” imprisoned some 120,000 Japanese Americans in concentrationcampsduringWorld War II. Most were U.S. citizens and half were children. The overwhelming majority of these individuals would spend the ne...
with a wave of anti-Asian violence that is rooted in a history of systemic exclusion and racism, the Wing Luke Museum and Chin Music Press are publishing a graphic novel that sheds new light on a major part of that history – the WW2 exclusion and incarceration of Japanese Americans. ...