Memoir, Oral History, Autobiography

The Other side of Main Street : a collection of oral histories of ethnic peoples: Watsonville, California / [edited by Pedro Castillo ... et al.]. Santa Cruz : University of California, 1979.

Japanese American World War II evacuation oral history project / edited by Arthur A. Hansen. Westport : Meckler, c1991.

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki. Farewell to Manzanar; a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment [by] Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1973.

Nakane, Kazuko. Nothing left in my hands : an early Japanese American community in California's Pajaro Valley / Kazuko Nakane. Seattle, Wash. : Young Pine Press, c1985. U

Okubo, Mine. Citizen 13660; drawings & text by Mine Okubo. New York, Columbia University Press, 1947, [c1946].

Sakata, Hisaji, 1911- Hisaji Sakata. Watsonville, Calif. : Pajaro Valley Historical Association, c1990.

Sone, Monica Itoi, 1919- Nisei daughter / by Monica Sone; introd. by S. Frank Miyamoto. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [1979] c1953.

Stanley, Jerry, 1941- I am an American : a true story of Japanese internment / by Jerry Stanley. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c1994. 

Tamura, Linda, 1949- The Hood River Issei : an oral history of Japanese settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley / Linda Tamura; foreword by Roger Daniels. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1993. Series title: The Asian American experience.

And justice for all : an oral history of the Japanese American detention camps / [compiled by] John Tateishi. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1984.

Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey to Topaz; a story of the Japanese-American evacuation. Illustrated by Donald Carrick. New York, Scribner [1971].

Uchida, Yoshiko. Desert exile : the uprooting of a Japanese American family / Yoshiko Uchida. Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1982.

Uchida, Yoshiko. The invisible thread : an autobiography / by Yoshiko Uchida. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : J. Messner, c1991. Series title: In my own words.

Ueno, Harry Y. (Harry Yoshio), 1907- Manzanar martyr : an interview with Harry Y. Ueno / Sue Kunitomi Embrey, Arthur A. Hansen, Betty Kulberg Mitson. 1st ed. Fullerton, Calif. : Oral History Program, California State University, c1986.
 

Nonfiction

Adams, Ansel, 1902- Manzanar / photographs by Ansel Adams; commentary by John Hersey; [compiled] by John Armor & Peter Wright. [New York] : Times Books, 1988.

Adams, Ansel, 1902- Two views of Manzanar : an exhibition of photographs / by Ansel Adams, Toyo Miyatake. Los Angeles : Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, c1978.

Bosworth, Allan R. (Allan Rucker), 1901- America's concentration camps [by] Allan R. Bosworth. Introd. by Roger Baldwin. [1st ed.]. New York, Norton [1967].

Japanese Americans, from relocation to redress / edited by Roger Daniels, Sandra C. Taylor, and Harry H.L. Kitano; contributions by Leonard J. Arrington ... [et al.]. Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press, c1986.

Daniels, Roger. Prisoners without trial : Japanese Americans in World War II / Roger Daniels; consulting editor, Eric Foner. 1st ed. New York : Hill and Wang, 1993.

Davis, Daniel S. Behind barbed wire : the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II / by Daniel S. Davis. 1st ed. New York : Dutton, c1982.

Duus, Masayo, 1938- Unlikely liberators : the men of the 100th and 442nd / by Masayo Umezawa Duus; translated by Peter Duus. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1987.

Executive order 9066 : the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans / Maisie & Richard Conrat; with an original introduction by Edison Uno; and an original epilogue by Tom C. Clark; photographs by Dorothea Lange... New ed. [Los Angeles, Calif.] : University of California, Los Angeles, Asian American Studies Center, c1992.

Gesensway, Deborah, 1960- Beyond words : images from America's concentration camps / Deborah Gesensway and Mindy Roseman. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1987.

Hamanaka, Sheila. The journey : Japanese Americans, racism, and renewal / painting and text by Sheila Hamanaka; book design by Steve Frederick. New York : Orchard Books, c1990.

Hatamiya, Leslie T., 1969- Righting a wrong : Japanese Americans and the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 / Leslie T. Hatamiya. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1993.

Hohri, William Minoru, 1927- Repairing America : an account of the movement for Japanese-American redress / William Minoru Hohri; foreword by John Toland. Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press, 1988, c1984.

Hsu, Kai-yu, 1922- Asian-American authors [compiled by] Kai-yu Hsu [and] Helen Palubinskas. Boston, Houghton Mifflin [1972]. Series title: Multi-ethnic literature.

Ichihashi, Yamato. Morning glory, evening shadow : Yamato Ichihashi and his internment writings, 1942-1945 / edited, annotated, and with a biographical essay by Gordon H. Chang. Standford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1997.

A Buried past; an annotated bibliography of the Japanese American Research Project Collection. Compiled by Yuji Ichioka [and others]. Berkeley, University of California Press [1974].

Views from within : the Japanese American evacuation and resettlement study / edited and with contribution by Yuji Ichioka. [Los Angeles] : Resource Development and Publications, Asian American Studies Center, University of California at Los Angeles, c1989.

James, Thomas, 1948- Exile within : the schooling of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945 / Thomas James. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c1987.

Kitagawa, Daisuke. Issei and nisei; the internment years. New York, Seabury Press [1967].

Myer, Dillon S. (Dillon Seymour), 1891- Uprooted Americans; the Japanese Americans and the War Relocation Authority during World War II [by] Dillon S. Myer. Tucson, University of Arizona Press [1971]. 

Nagata, Donna K. Legacy of injustice : exploring the cross-generational impact of the impact of the Japanese American internment / Donna K. Nagata. New York : Plenum Press, c1993. 

Okihiro, Gary Y., 1945- Whispered silences : Japanese Americans and World War II / essay by Gary Y. Okihiro; photographs by Joan Myers. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1996.

Takezawa, Yasuko I., 1957- Breaking the silence : redress and Japanese American ethnicity / Yasuko I. Takezawa. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995. Series title: Anthropology of contemporary issues. 

Taylor, Sandra C. Jewel of the desert : Japanese American internment at Topaz / Sandra C. Taylor. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993. 

Weglyn, Michi, 1926- Years of infamy : the untold story of America's concentration camps / by Michi Weglyn. New York : Morrow, 1976.
 

Poetry

Inada, Lawson Fusao. Before the war; poems as they happened. New York, Morrow, 1971.

Inada, Lawson Fusao. Legends from camp : poems / by Lawson Fusao Inada. Minneapolis : Coffee House Press; St. Paul, MN : Available through Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, 1992, [c1993].

Inada, Lawson Fusao. Drawing the line : poems / by Lawson Fusao Inada. Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, c1997.

Mirikitani, Janice. We, the dangerous : new and selected poems / Janice Mirikitani. Berkeley, Calif. : Celestial Arts, c1995.

Mitsui, James Masao, 1940- Journal of the sun : [poems] / James Masao Mitsui. Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c1974.

Mitsui, James Masao, 1940- Crossing the Phantom River / James Masao Mitsui. Port Townsend, Wash. : Graywolf Press, c1978. 

Mitsui, James Masao, 1940- From a three-cornered world : new and selected poems / James Masao Mitsui. Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1997.

Poets behind barbed wire : Tanka poems / Keiho Soga ... [et al.]; illustrations by George Hoshida; edited and translated by Jiro Nakano, Kay Nakano. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bamboo Ridge Press : Hawaii Ethnic Resources Center Talk Story, c1983.

Yamada, Mitsuye. Desert run : poems and stories / Mitsuye Yamada. Latham, NY : Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, c1988.

Fiction

Kogawa, Joy. Obasan / Joy Kogawa. 1st U.S. ed. Boston : D.R. Godine, 1982, c1981.

Miyakawa, Edward, 1934- Tule Lake / by Edward Miyakawa. 1st ed. Waldport, Or. : House by the Sea, c1979.

Mori, Toshio, 1910- The chauvinist and other stories / Toshio Mori; introd. by Hisaye Yamamoto. Los Angeles : Asian American Studies Center, University of California, c1979.

Mori, Toshio, 1910- Yokohama, California / by Toshio Mori; introduction by William Saroyan; new introduction by Lawson Fusao Inada. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1985, c1949.

Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey home / Yoshiko Uchida; illustrated by Charles Robinson. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum, 1978.

Uchida, Yoshiko. Picture bride : a novel / by Yoshiko Uchida. 1st Fireside ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1988, c1987.

Yamada, Mitsuye. Camp notes and other poems / by Mitsuye Yamada. San Lorenzo, Calif. : Shameless Hussy Press, c1976.

Yamada, Mitsuye. Desert run : poems and stories / Mitsuye Yamada. Latham, NY : Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, c1988.

Fusion too : [a Japanese American anthology] / a project of the Asian American Studies Department, San Francisco State University; James Okutsu, project director. San Francisco, CA : San Francisco State University, c1985. 

Yamamoto, Hisaye. Seventeen syllables / Hisaye Yamamoto; edited and with an introduction by King-Kok Cheung. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1994. Series title: Women writers (New Brunswick, N.J.)
 

Plays

The Politics of life : four plays / by Asian American women; edited and with an introduction and commentaries by Velina Hasu Houston. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c1993.


Videos and Films

The Color of honor / a documentary film by Loni Ding. San Francisco, CA : Vox Productions, c1987. 1 videocassette (VHS) (101 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Come see the Paradise / 20th Century Fox; produced by Robert F. Colesberry; written and directed by Alan Parker. Special wide screen ed. Beverly Hills, CA : Fox Video, 1991. 2 videodiscs (laser optical) (133 min.) : sd., col.; 12 in. Laser disc; CLV extended play, sides 1 & 2; CAV standard play, side 3; stereo; CX; chapter stops.


Days of waiting : the life and art of Estelle Ishigo. San Francisco : Mouchette Films, c1989. 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.

A Family gathering / producers, Lise Yasui, Ann Tegnell; director, writer, Lisa Yasui. [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, 1990. 1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences; 1/2 in.

History and memory : for Akiko and Takashige / written & directed by Rea Rajiri. New York : Distributed by Women Make Movies, c1991. 1 videocassette (32 min.) : sd., col. with b&w; 1/2 in. VHS format.

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki. Farewell to Manzanar / teleplay by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston and John Korty; produced and directed by John Korty. [S.l. : s.n., 197-?]. 1 videocassette : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Japanese relocation. Chicago : International Historic Films, c1984. on 1 videocassette (11 min.) : sd., b&w; 1/2 in.

Meeting at Tule Lake / director, Scott T. Tsuchitani; producer, Scott T. Tsuchitani. San Francisco, CA : Tule Lake Committee, c1994. 1 videocassette (33 min., 7 sec.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in. VHS.

Relocating the camps. [Santa Cruz, Calif. : Presentations Unit, Media Services, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1993]. 1 videocassette (1 hr., 26 min., 42 sec.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in. VHS.

Something strong within : home movies from America's concentration camps / a film by Robert A. Nakamura. Los Angeles, CA : Japanese American National Museum, c1994. 1 videocassette (40 min.) : sd., col., b&w; 1/2 in. 

Who's going to pay for these donuts anyway? / Fo Fum Productions. San Francisco, CA : CrossCurrent Media; National Asian American Telecommunications Association [distributor], 1992. 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in. VHS.

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