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Specialized Encyclopedia Articles

Nakadate, Neil. "Japanese Americans." Encyclopedia of American Studies, 2018.
Nomura, Gail M. "Japanese American Women." The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History
Ishii-Kuntz, Masako. "Japanese Immigrant Families." The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia. 2014
Force, Thessaly L. "The Story of the Great Japanese-American Novel: Social Studies." New York Times. 2019
Easton, Stanley E., and Lucien Ellington. "Japanese Americans." Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, edited by Jeffrey Lehman, 2nd ed., vol. 2, Gale, 2000, pp. 1014-1029
Adachi, N., & Radzilowski, J. (2014). Internment of Japanese and Others During World War II. In J. Ciment & J. Radzilowski (Eds.), American Immigration: An Encyclopedia of Political, Social, and Cultural Change (2nd ed., pp. 554-558)
Matuz, R. (2004). Daniel K. Inouye in U.S. Immigration and Migration Reference Library (Vol. 3, pp. 184-193)

Why I love a country that once betrayed me | George Takei

Novels

The No-No Boy by John Okada
Yokohama, California by Toshio Mori; Xiaojing Zhou (Introduction by); William Saroyan (Introduction by); Lawson Fusao Inada (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780295806426
Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s.

Links

Japanese American National Museum
Densho
"A comprehensive reference tool with nearly 1,000 free and accessible entries related to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans"
Library of Congress - Immigration and Relocation in US History - Japanese
Japanese American Citizens League
"Founded in 1929, the JACL is the oldest and largest Asian American civil rights organization in the United States. The JACL monitors and responds to issues that enhance or threaten the civil and human rights of all Americans and implements strategies to effect positive social change, particularly to the Asian Pacific American Community."

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