Falgout, Suzanne, and Linda
Nishigaya. Breaking the Silence: Lessons of Democracy and Social
Justice from the World War II Honouliuli Internment and POW Camp in Hawai'i.
Honolulu: Department of Sociology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 2014.
This book is a collection of articles authored by University of
Hawaii-West Oahu faculty from eight different academic disciplines and scholars
and community partners. The work examines the archaeological, historical,
sociological, political, psychological, and cultural aspects and impacts of
World War II confinement in Honouliuli. Europeans
categorized as Germans and Italians, as well as POWS of Japanese, Okinawan,
Korean, Italian and Filipino origin remain largely unknown and untold.
Coming Soon! This book has been ordered by Sgt. Yano.
Lange, Dorothea, Linda Gordon, and Gary
Y. Okihiro. Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of
Japanese American Internment. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006.
Censored by the U.S. Army, Dorothea
Lange's unseen photographs are the photographic record of the Japanese American
internment saga: from life before Executive Order 9066. Visual and social history with 119 images narrated
by historians Linda Gordon and Gary Okihiro.
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Okamura, Jonathan Y. From Race to Ethnicity: Interpreting Japanese American Experiences in Hawai’i. 2014.
The author states that race was the foremost organizing
principle of social relations in Hawaii and the book interprets these
experiences from racial and ethnic perspectives. It covers the racial history of Japanese
Americans from early struggles against oppressive working and living conditions
on sugar plantations and the rise to power of the Democratic Party following
World War II.
