Additional Resources and Reading - Diversity Common Reader Program

More from Tamiko Nimura

• Discover Nikkei articles
• International Examiner articles
• "Remembering Tacoma's Nihonmachi" 
• "'Tidying Up' My Family's Camp Dresser"
• "To My 11-year-old Father in the Camp"
• "Why Don't We Know Mitsuye Endo?"
• "Writing We Hereby Refuse: Three Things I Learned about Resistance"

More from Vincent Schleitwiler

• "A Guest in a Ghost's Home" 
• International Examiner articles
• "MuNK: Loving the Non-Alien"
• "Smuggled Lenses: Photography and Japanese American History at Manzanar"
• Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific: Imperialism's Racial Justice and Its Fugitives

More on the resisters in We Hereby Refuse

• Hajime "Jim" Akutsu
• Mitsuye Endo
• Hiroshi Kashiwagi

RESOURCES ON JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION

Digital Archives and Exhibits

• Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese American Internment at Manzanar, Library of Congress. 
• Densho Digital Repository
• Japanese American Digitization Project, California State University
• Japanese American Incarceration Collection, Washington State University
• Japanese American National Museum Digital Collections 
• Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive, University of California 
• Manzanar National Historic Site Virtual Museum Exhibit, National Park Service

Nonfiction Books

• The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, Delphine Hirasuna.
• Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment, eds. Linda Gordon and Gary Y. Okihiro.
• The Japanese American Cases: The Rule of Law in Time of War, Roger Daniels.
• Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience, ed. Lawson Fusao Inada.
• Mazanar: Historic Research Study/Special History Study, National Park Service.
• Nikkei Baseball: Japanese American Players from Immigration and Internment to the Major Leagues, Samuel O. Regalado.
• Relocating Authority, Mira Shimabukuro. 
• Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific: Imperialism’s Racial Justice and Its Fugitives, Vince Schleitwiler.
• Tule Lake Revisited: A Brief History and Guide to the Tule Lake Concentration Camp Site, Barbara Takei and Judy Tachibana.
• A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America, Greg Robinson.

Memoirs

• Citizen 13660, Miné Okubo.
• Desert Exile, Yoshiko Uchida.
• Displacement, Kiko Hughes.
• Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston.
• An Internment Odyssey: Haisho Tenten, Suikei Furuya, trans. Tatsumi Hayashi.
• Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind a World War II Fence, Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey.
• Kiyo’s Story: A Japanese-American Family’s Quest for the American Dream, Kiyo Sato.
• Life Behind Barbed Wire: The WWII Internment Memoirs of a Hawai’i Issei, Yasutaro Soga, trans. Kihei Hirai.
• The Little Exile, Jeanette S. Arakawa.
• Looking Like the Enemy, Mary Matsuda Gruenewald.
• Looking after Minidoka, Neil Nakadate.
• Manzanar to Mt. Whitney: The Life and Times of a Lost Hiker, Hank Umemoto.
• Nisei Daughter, Monica Sone.
• Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura, James Matsumoto Omura, ed. Arthur A. Hansen.
• Swimming in the American: A Memoir and Selected Writings, Hiroshi Kashiwagi.
• They Called Us Enemy, George Takei.
• Tule Lake: An Issei Memoir, Noburu Shirai, trans. Ray Hosoda.
• Karen Tei Yamashita, Letters to Memory.

Fiction

• 21st Century Manzanar, Perry Miyake.
• Clark and Division, Naomi Hirahara. 
• Color of Sea, John Hamamura.
• Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire, David Mura.
• Fox Drum Bebop, Gene Oishi.
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford.
• The Issei Prisoners of the San Pedro Internment Center, Stanley N. Kanzaki.
• The Legend of Fire Horse Woman, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston.
• No-No Boy, John Okada.
• Obasan, Joy Kogawa.
• Southland, Nina Revoyr.
• What the Scarecrow Said, Stewart David Ikeda.
• When the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka.
• Why She Left Us, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto.

Documentary Films

• An American Contradiction, Vanessa Yuille.
• And Then They Came for Us, Abby Ginzberg and Ken Schneider.
• Conscience and the Constitution, Frank Abe.
• History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige, Rea Tajiri. 
• Korematsu and Civil Liberties, Robe Imbriano.
• Manzanar: Never Again, National Park Service.
• Meeting at Tule Lake, Scott T. Tsuchitani.
• Pilgrimage, Tadashi Nakamura.
• Prisoners and Patriots: The Untold Story of Japanese Internment in Santa Fe, Neil Simon.
• Rabbit in the Moon, Emiko Omori. 
• Resistance at Tule Lake, Konrad Aderer. 
• Shiro Kashino: An American Hero, Shannon Gee, Randy Eng, Lawrence Matsuda.