Farewell to Manzanar

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston: Farewell to Manzanar

Use the reference books listed below to gather biographical and critical information about the author, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, and her work. Use these books, as a starting point for your research. In addition to the traditional library sources used for author biography and criticism, your search for information about Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and the book Farewell to Manzanar could include a search for information about the political and social conditions of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Your research can include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.

Books

Use the Library Catalog to find books on your subject. Suggested subject headings include:

World War, 1939-1945 � Asian Americans and the war
World War, 1939-1945 � Concentration camps � United States
Japanese Americans � Evacuation and relocation

Something about the author. REF PN451 .S6 Masterplots II. Women�s literature series. REF PN471 .M37 1995 The Asian American encyclopedia. REF E184 .O6 A827 1995 Encyclopedia of Japanese American History REF E184 .J3 E53 2001		Girdner, Audrie The great betrayal; the evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II D769.8 .A6 G5 Adams, Ansel Manzanar D769.8 .A6 A63 1988
Daniels, Roger Concentration camps, North America: Japanese in the United States & Canada during World War II D769.8 .A6 D3 1993		The Marshall Cavendish illustrated encyclopedia of World War II: an objective, chronological, and comprehensive history of the Second World War REF D743.5 .M37 1985
Daniels, Roger The politics of prejudice, the anti-Japanese movement in California, and the struggle for Japanese exclusion E173 .C15 vol. 71 Drinnon, Richard Keeper of concentration camps: Dillon S. Myer and American racism E748 .M93 D74 1987		Kikuchi, Charles The Kikuchi diary: chronicle from an American concentration camp: the Tanforan journals of Charles Kikuchi D769.8 .A6 K54 1993 Niiya, Brian, ed. Japanese American history: an A-to-Z reference from 1868 to the present REF E184 .J3 J3355 1993
History in dispute REF D20 .H56 2000 vol. 5		The Oxford companion to World War II REF D740 .O94 1995
Weglyn, Michi Years of infamy: the untold story of America�s concentration camps D769.8 .A6 W43		Okihiro, Gary Y. Whispered silences: Japanese Americans and World War II D769.8 .A6 O36 1996
Grapes, Bryan J. Japanese American internment camps D769.8.A6 J37 2001

Online Journal and Reference Articles

Journals and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic. Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic. To find articles on your topic, use one of the databases listed below. Use subject headings similar to those used to locate books.

Country Watch

EBSCOhost
Ethnic News Watch

Facts.com

GaleNet

Gender Watch

Grove Art

In the First Person

NetLibrary eBooks

NewsBank

Project Muse

Proquest Newspapers

RAND California

Sample searches:

*EbscoHost* Keyword searches:	Anti-Japanese and World War II Japanese American* and internment Japanese America* and social conditions Manzanar
*GaleNet Discovering Collection* Search terms:	Japanese internment Japanese relocation United States concentration camps

For remote access to the library databases, see E-Resource Login & Searching Options.

For historical research, the Library also has print indexes that must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1985.

Web Sites

History Channel

http://historychannel.com/

Search terms: Japanese internment; Japanese-american relocation

War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946

http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/wracamps/

National Archives and Records Administration: The Constitution Community; Documents and Photographs Related to Japanese Relocation During World War II

http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/relocate.html

University of Louisville Ekstrom Library Government Publications: Japanese-American Internment/Relocation

http://www.louisville.edu/library/ekstrom/govpubs/subjects/war/ww2/jintern.html

Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/anthropolgy74/

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/dynaweb/ead/calher/jvac/@Generic__BookView

Forwarding Address Required

http://www.si.edu/postal/far/exhibit.html

Japanese Internment Camps

http://www.uwec.edu/Academic/Geography/Ivogeler/w188/j1.htm

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