Book Review— Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps. By Mary Matsuda Gruenewald. NewSage Press, 2005. xi-227 pp (original) (raw)
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Japanese Americans in Internment Camps and the Experience
Sonoma State University, 2024
Noula Karaszi's paper explores the experience during World War II, Japanese Americans were subjected to internment camps, a dark chapter in American history that stripped them of their civil liberties and forced them from their homes. This paper explores the multifaceted experiences of Japanese Americans during internment, focusing on themes of identity, loss, and resilience. Through an analysis of literature, scholarly articles, and personal narratives, the paper delves into how internment affected Japanese American identity and memory. Works like Lawson Fusao Inada's "Only What We Could Carry" and Hisaye Yamamoto's stories offer poignant insights into the dispossession and dehumanization faced by Japanese Americans. The paper also examines contemporary reflections on these experiences, emphasizing the importance of learning from history to address current issues of prejudice and discrimination.
Till death do us part: Men's and women's interpretations of wartime internment
Womens Studies International Forum, 1987
Synopsis-How do men and women interpret their experiences of wartime internment in the same civilian prisoner of war camp? What factors influence the nature of their interpretations, and the simifarities and differences among them? This paper reports the results of a unique study of a unique community, the five hundred.Amcricans (and some aliies) interned and by the Japanese in Camp Holmes in the vicinity of Baguio. the Philippines, throughout World War I1 until they were herded iqto Manila's notorious Old Bilibid Prison in 1945 during the Japanese last stand. The information is derived from ten internees' diaries and retrospective narratives based on diaries (six by women, four by men), interviews with five former internees, and from a twelve-item questionnaim answered by thirty-two people. a random sample of thirty percent of the camp population that could be located in 1985.
Commentary: Intimate Memories and Coping with World War II Internment
Historical Archaeology, 2018
The essays in this thematic issue offer exciting new insights into the experience of internment and include some innovative methodological approaches to this aspect of "painful heritage." The material in these papers also throws light on some issues that are not the direct focus of these studies, but relate to experiences of both those involved with internment at the time, of survivors and descendants, and of contemporary researchers. Using the evidence and arguments presented here from Amache, Monticello, and Kooskia, and combining this with experiences from elsewhere, not only in North America, but also Europe and the Pacific, it is possible to discern some significant patterns that frame archaeological research on these types of sites. The reflections here can be articulated under a series of four headings: coping strategies during internment; remembering, forgetting, and coping in peacetime; archaeology, oral history, and remembering ; and archaeology and embodying the internment experience. Larger issues come out of the particular, when the biographies of places, families, and individuals relating to internment are examined. This is how I have explored internments on the Isle of Man in both World Wars (Mytum 2011, 2012, 2013b), as the scholars here are examining distinctive forms of imprisonment during World War II in the United States in their chosen locations for study. Taking a comparative
A psychohistorical analysis of the Japanese American internment
Human Rights Quarterly, 1995
for reading the essay closely and giving me helpful criticisms. 1. Evacuation is a term that has been the subject of criticism because it implies a humanitarian purpose (this point is made in Steven Okazaki's film, Unfinished Business (Mouchette Films, San Francisco, 1984)). I use it for the sake of simplicity but recognize that it is a misnomer.
2021
Fundamental to the American experiment since its inception is the question of how a nation of immigrants can confront race and difference in ensuring the ability of its citizens to pursue a dignified life within it. Racism and discrimination have never been confined to presidents or to the public. The legal system has produced some of the most concerning racial injustices throughout the history of the United States. The supposed objectivity behind which these injustices are masked renders them all the more insidious. Japanese Americans represent some of the most notable victims of legal racism in the form of their internment during the Second World War. The memory and legacy of this event has served as a motivation for “Japanese Americans to forge sympathetic connections with...new immigrant groups who are at risk of suffering the same racist mistreatment.” In an amicus brief