[May 3rd marks the 80th anniversary of the infamous broadside through which the Roosevelt administration ordered Japanese Americans to surrender themselves to the internment policy (or incarceration—I’m convinced of the need for that term change, but most folks still know it as internment so I’m using that in my series title). So this week I’ve AmericanStudied images of that horrific history, leading up to this special weekend post on scholars helping us remember it.]
A handful of the
many amazing scholars doing the work.
1)
Heidi
Kim: Among the many important subjects that my friend Heidi Kim has covered in her
impressive and evolving career is internment, most especially through her editing of Taken from the Paradise Isle: The Hoshida
Family Story (2015).
2)
Stephanie
Hinnershitz: If you want a definitive scholarly history and analysis of
internment/incarceration, start with Hinnershitz’s recent book Japanese
American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II
(2021).
3)
Karen
Inouye: The best work I’ve encountered on the aftermaths of incarceration,
including the kinds of Japanese American activism I traced in many of this week’s
posts, is Inouye’s excellent book The
Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration (2016).
4)
Cherstin
Lyon: A crucial starting point for my own thoughts (in Of
Thee I Sing) on Japanese Americans and debates over patriotism was Lyon’s
phenomenal book Prisons and Patriots: Japanese
American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory
(2012).
5)
Densho
Encyclopedia: I didn’t keep track of how many of the hyperlinks in this
week’s series sent y’all to Densho, but I know it was a ton. This isn’t just
the best scholarly and online resource about internment/incarceration—it’s one
of the best scholarly web projects out there, period.
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
PS. What do you
think? Scholarly voices—or other stories or histories—you’d add?
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