Cerritos College

Japanese Internment

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Use the Library Catalog  to find books on your topic that are available in the Cerritos College Library. Books can provide a broad overview of a topic or in-depth information.

You can search for books by author, title, subject, or keyword. Listed below are some Library of Congress Subject Headings used in the catalog for books relating to Japanese Internment. Use these terms to Search by Subject. Remember, this list is by no means conclusive.

World War, 1939-1945 – Asian Americans and the war

World War, 1939-1945 – Concentration camps – United States

Japanese Americans – Evacuation and relocation

Manzanar War Relocation Center

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki

Selected Reference Books

Reference books are a good starting point for your research because they help you become better acquainted with your topic. Listed below are some reference books that may be useful in your research. The Facts.com and Gale databases are online resources that may provide useful background information as well.  

Japanese American History: An A-to-Z Reference from 1868 to the Present
REF E184 .J3 J3355 1993

Encyclopedia of Japanese American History
REF E184 .J3E53 2001

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

Newspaper and Magazine  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.  They are available via the Library Home Page. 

Internet Sites

The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research. A few Internet sites that may be useful are listed here.

Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
http://www.densho.org 

Japanese American Internment Camps During World War II http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/9066/9066.htm 

Japanese-American Internment/Relocation (University of Louisville) http://library.louisville.edu/government/subjects/war/ww2/jintern.html 

Japanese American Internment Sites Preservation: A Report to the President http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/internment/report.htm 

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA)
http://jarda.cdlib.org/ 

A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U. S. Constitution http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/index.html 

National Archives: Japanese Relocation and Internment During World War II http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/japanese-internment.html 

War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946 http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/wracamps/ 

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf596nb4h0

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