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FRED KOREMATSU DAY READING LIST FROM ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

These four books will be featured in the AASP as part Fred Korematsu Day observed January 30th.
Years of Infamy by Michi Weglyn

"A truly excellent and moving book ...The story of the concentration camps for Japanese has often been told, but usually with an emphasis on the silver lining ...Michi Weglyn concentrates instead on the other side of the picture. "Years of Infamy" is hard hitting but fair and balanced. It is a terrible story of administrative callousness and bungling, untold damage to the human soul, confusion, and terror."- Edwin O. Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan.


Inside an American Concentration Camp by Richard S. Nishimoto and edited by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

“During WWII, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated in American concentration camps. It is often assumed that , because they launched no major revolt, Japanese Americans were passive participants in the government’s “relocation” program. But the general tenor of compliance masked a powerful resolve to maintain self-determine. Inside an American Concentration Camp takes readers inside one of the camps and documents this hidden heritage of resistance”.

 

Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese- American Family by Yoshiko Uchida

"Yoshiko Uchida has given us a chronicle of a very special kind of courage, the courage to preserve normalcy and humanity in the face of irrationality and inhumanity. Her family's story, told in loving detail, brings alive the internment experience and is an important book for all Americans. It is not a history of the decisions that were made during this period, but rather it is the story of the human lives touched and molded by those decisions. As such it is infinitely more important, and infinitely more precious." - United States Senator Daniel K. Inouye

 

Elusive Truth – Four photographers at Manzanar by Gerald H. Robinson

“Four photographers Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Clem Albers and Toyo Miyatake photographed Manzanar and its residents at various times throughout its three year existence. Their photographs tell the story of Manzanar from four different perspectives. Taken together, they offer a glimpse of the elusive truth of the relocation camps a cautionary and poignant tale of pain, injustice, and the triumph of the human spirit”.

Join us for "My Movement, Our Movement" on January 30, 2013 from 7-9pm in the Bear's Den!