Further readings and sources available

Note: some works will be harder to access compared to others due to them being heavily available to students and not the general public

To grasp a wider range of the beginning process of internment, it will be best to look at pieces from Greg Robison or Roger Daniels as they are both respectable historians with vast knowledge on the subject. Although their works are very heavily focused on the move for internment, they are still a great place to start.

Another recommendation would be to go through the Densho archives. Filled with thousands of unique primary and secondary information, there is a wide range of sources to choose from. This is heavily suggested further reading if you wish to engage on a more personal level with the work.

If you wish to read different approaches to the topic, ones that are less of a revisionist, then the works of Lillian Baker and Lon Kurashige both take on interesting angles. Baker with a more unsympathetic mindset towards the internment camps and Kurashige as one who pushes for the argument that class and gender were underlying causes for the Manzanar Riots.

Further suggested sources:

• Densho Digital Repository, denshopd-i67-00011, ‘Memorandum on C. B. Munson’s report on ‘Japanese on the West Coast’, N

• Dorothea Lange's photograph collection

• ovember 1941’, 2026 <https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-67-11/>

• National Archives, Record Group 11, 5730250 ‘Executive Order 9066 dated February 19, 1942, in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizes the Secretary of War to prescribe military areas’ <https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/executive-order-9066>.

• United States Census Bureau, 1940 Census of a  population: characteristics of the nonwhite population by race, ‘Sixteenth census of the United Sates: 1940’,  2021 <https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1943/dec/population-nonwhite.html>.

• As well as the interviews suggested in the Personal Accounts in the Camps

• Brian Niiya, Densho, Ten things that made Poston Concentration Camp unique, 2019 <https://densho.org/catalyst/ten-things-that-made-poston-unique/>.

• Mikiso, Hane, ‘Wartime Internment’, The Journal of American History, Vol. 77, No. 2 (1990),  https://doi.org/10.2307/2079186

• Roger Daniels, The decision to relocate the Japanese Americans (J. B. Lippincott Company, 1975).

• Gary Y. Okihiro, ‘Religion and resistance in America’s Concentration Camps’, Phylon, Vol. 45, No. 3 (1984)