Research Catalog

Title

Confinement and ethnicity : an overview of World War II Japanese American relocation sites / Jeffery F. Burton ... [et al.] ; with a new foreword by Tetsuden Kashima ; an essay by Eleanor Roosevelt ; cartography by Ronald J. Beckwith ; a contribution by Irene J. Cohen.

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Burton, Jeffery F.
• Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
• Cohen, Irene J.

Description

xii, 449 p. : ill., maps; 22 x 28 cm.

Summary

This report provides an overview of the tangible remains currently left at the sites of the Japanese American internment during World War II. The main focus is on the War Relocation Authority's relocation centers, but Department of Justice and U.S. Army facilities where Japanese Americans were interned are also considered. The goal of the study has been to provide information for the National Landmark Theme Study called for in the Manzanar National Historic Site enabling legislation. Archival research, field visits, and interviews with former internees provide preliminary documentation about the architectural remnants, the archeological features, and the artifacts remaining at the sites. The degree of preservation varies tremendously. At some locations, modern development has obscured many traces of the World War II-era buildings and features. At a few sites, relocation center buildings still stand, and some are still in use. Overall the physical remains at all the sites are evocative of this very significant, if shameful, episode in U.S. history, and all appear to merit National Register of Historic Places or National Historic Landmark status.

Series Statement

The Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies

Subjects

• Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
• Historic sites > United States
• World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > United States
• World War, 1939-1945 > Japanese Americans > Housing

Genre/Form

Verzeichnis.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-424).

Contents

Foreword / Tetsuden Kashima -- Sites of Shame: An Introduction -- To Undo a Mistake is Always Harder Than Not to Create One Originally / Eleanor Roosevelt -- A Brief History of Japanese American Relocation During World War II -- Gila River Relocation Center, Arizona -- Granada Relocation Center, Colorado -- Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming -- Jerome Relocation Center, Arkansas -- Manzanar Relocation Center, California -- Minidoka Relocation Center, Idaho -- Poston Relocation Center, Arizona -- Rohwer Relocation Center, Arkansas -- Topaz Relocation Center, Utah -- Tule Lake Relocation Center, California -- Citizen Isolation Centers -- Moab, Utah -- Leupp, Arizona -- Additional War Relocation Authority Facilities -- Antelope Springs, Utah -- Cow Creek, Death Valley, California -- Tulelake, California -- Assembly Centers -- Fresno, California -- Marysville, California -- Mayer, Arizona -- Merced, California -- Pinedale, California -- Pomona, California -- Portland, Oregon -- Puyallup, Washington -- Sacramento, California -- Salinas, California -- Santa Anita, California -- Stockton, California -- Tanforan, California -- Tulare, California -- Turlock, California -- Department of Justice and U.S. Army Facilities -- Temporary Detention Stations -- Department of Justice Internment Camps -- Crystal City Internment Center, Texas -- Kenedy Internment Center, Texas -- Kooskia Internment Camp, Idaho -- Fort Lincoln, North Dakota -- Fort Missoula, Montana -- Fort Stanton, New Mexico -- Santa Fe, New Mexico.

ISBN

0295981563 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001033288

OCLC

• 46810556
• SCSB-10452331

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library