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Title Confinement and ethnicity : an overview of World War II Japanese American relocation sites / Jeffery F. Burton [and others] ; with a new foreword by Tetsuden Kashima ; an essay by Eleanor Roosevelt ; cartography by Ronald J. Beckwith ; a contribution by Irene J. Cohen
Edition 1st University of Washington Press ed
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 449 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series The Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies
Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies.
Contents Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword by Tetsuden Kashima -- Chapter 1: Sites of Shame: An Introduction -- Chapter 2: To Undo a Mistake is Always Harder Than Not to Create One Originally by Eleanor Roosevelt -- Chapter 3: A Brief History of Japanese American Relocation During World War II -- Chapter 4: Gila River Relocation Center, Arizona -- Chapter 5: Granada Relocation Center, Colorado -- Chapter 6: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming -- Chapter 7: Jerome Relocation Center, Arkansas -- Chapter 8: Manzanar Relocation Center, California
Chapter 9: Minidoka Relocation Center, Idaho -- Chapter 10: Poston Relocation Center, Arizona -- Chapter 11: Rohwer Relocation Center, Arkansas -- Chapter 12: Topaz Relocation Center, Utah -- Chapter 13: Tule Lake Relocation Center, California -- Chapter 14: Citizen Isolation Centers -- Chapter 15: Additional War Relocation Authority Facilities -- Chapter 16: Assembly Centers -- Chapter 17: Department of Justice and U.S. Army Facilities -- Chapter 18: Federak Bureau of Prisons -- References Cited
Appendix A: Relocation Center Drawings in Records Group 210, National Archives, Cartographic Division / Compiled by Irene J. Cohen -- Appendix B: Tule Lake Relocation Center Drawings at the Bureau of Reclamation, Klamath Falls Office -- Appendix C: Selected Relocation Center Blueprints
Summary This report provides an overview of the tangible remains currently left at the sites of the Japanese American internment during World War II. The main focus is on the War Relocation Authority's relocation centers, but Department of Justice and U.S. Army facilities where Japanese Americans were interned are also considered. The goal of the study has been to provide information for the National Landmark Theme Study called for in the Manzanar National Historic Site enabling legislation. Archival research, field visits, and interviews with former internees provide preliminary documentation about the architectural remnants, the archeological features, and the artifacts remaining at the sites. The degree of preservation varies tremendously. At some locations, modern development has obscured many traces of the World War II-era buildings and features. At a few sites, relocation center buildings still stand, and some are still in use. Overall the physical remains at all the sites are evocative of this very significant, if shameful, episode in U.S. history, and all appear to merit National Register of Historic Places or National Historic Landmark status
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans -- Housing
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States
Historic sites -- United States.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies.
Japanese Americans
Internment camps
Housing
Historic sites
Umsiedlung
Weltkrieg 1939-1945
Verzeichnis
Internierungslager
United States
USA
Japaner.
Form Electronic book
Author Burton, Jeffery F
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Cohen, Irene J.
ISBN 9780295801513
0295801514
OTHER TI Publications in anthropology (Western Archeological and Conservation Center (U.S.)). 79