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Week of February 25, 2008

INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICANS - February 25, 2008
News Item: 66 years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which eventually sent Americans of Japanese descent, as well as Japanese immigrants, to internment camps.

 

American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II
By Eric L. Muller. University of North Carolina Press, 2007
Call Number: D769.8 .A6 M85 2007

By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans
By Greg Robinson. Harvard University Press, 2001
Call Number: D769.8 .A6 R63 2001

In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror
By Michelle Malkin. Regnery Publ, 2004
Call Number: HV8141 .M245 2004 (At JUPITER - May be borrowed using ILL services)

Life Behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Internment of Memoirs of a Hawai'i Issei
By Keiho Soga. University of Hawaii Press, 2008
Call Number: D769.8 .A6 S613 2008

Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans During World War II: Suppression of Civil Liberty
By Roger Daniels. Hill and Wang, 2004, rev. ed.
Call Number: D769.8 .A6 D37 2004

Rabbit in the Moon (DVD)
"A documentary/memoir about the lingering effects of the World War II internment of the Japanese American community."
Directed and Written by Emiko Omori. Wabi-Sabi Productions, 1999
Call Number: VH 6833 (In the Boca Raton MEDIA CENTER)

Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps
By Michi Weglyn. University of Washington Press, 1996
Call Number :D769.8 .A6 W43 1996

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