Memories of the Japanese American Incarceration Camps during WWII vary widely across America. For some, memories of the incarceration are a focal point of their identity and a driver of political action. Others who underwent this imprisonment choose not to recall their experiences. Incarceration can ...
While the process of incarcerating Japanese Americans during World War II was a massive undertaking, it was executed via a patchwork of different approaches. Many of the displaced people were evicted from their homes and moved from the Pacific coast to regions nearer the interior of the continent...
Matsuda’s family returned to Seattle, but Matsuda’s father wasn’t able to run a grocery store again, and was forced to become a janitor. “On top of everything else, we didn’t want to look Japanese again,” he says. “We wanted to make sure everyone knew we were Americans.” N...
November 24 at 10:30 am in Room 207, at the panel on “Preserving Dignity through Memory and Critical Literacy with Honor to the Japanese American Experience during WWII-Era Incarceration.”
diversity. Fueled by all this, young Japanese Americans began to wonder what happened during WWII and why their parents and grandparents had not resisted the incarceration. For most Japanese Americans, though, the pain and shame of the incarceration experience still outweighed the desire for redress...
City University of New York 47-49 East 65th Street Floyd Cheung and I will presentThe Literature of Japanese American Incarcerationduring Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at the New York City home of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, “where some of the most iconic public policy ...
The Political Consequences of Ethnically Targeted Incarceration: Evidence from Japanese-American Internment During WWIIdoi:10.2139/ssrn.3656485What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting a minority group? This question is well studied in the comparative contextKomisarc...
Japanese-American explains WWII incarceration at San Jose State U.Carrie Mattingly
Lkingston54@webster.eduLindsey N. Kingston
Drawing upon work in Composition and Rhetoric, New Literacy Studies, Multicultural Rhetorics, and Asian American studies, Relocating Authority examines the ways Japanese Americans used writing during World War II to respond to the circumstances of their mass incarceration. Following previous ...