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Desert Exile — The uprooting of a Japanese American Family by Yoshiko Uchida
U of W Press, 1982 softcover 154 pp $14.95

"...Desert Exile is a beautifully written personal history of the author's family, of their life before the war, and of their internment during the war..." —Western Historical Quarterly

Nisei Daughter by Monica Sone
U of W Press, 1979 softcover 238 pp $14.95

"With charm, humor, and deep understanding, a Japanese American woman tells how it was to grow up on Seattle waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to relocation during WWII." — University of Washington Press

Japanese Americans: From Relocation to Redress
Revised edition, 1991, Univ. of Utah Press softcover 239 pp $25.00

"This is a superb collection of essays on Japanese Americans, focusing on their wartime relocation. About thirty authors offer analyses of that experience..." Akira Iriye, Journal of the West

Confinement & Ethnicity — An Overview of WWII Japanese American Relocation Sites by Jeffrey F. Burton, Mary M. Farrell, Florence B. Lord, and Richard W. Lord With a new foreword by Tetsuden Kashima
U of W Press 2002 softcover 449 pp $27.50

"This remarkable volume documents the various facilities in which persons of Japanese descent living in the western United States were confined during World War II. Originally published as a report of the National Park Service, it is now reissued in a corrected edition with a new Foreword. Based on archival research, field visits, and interviews with former residents, it provided a detailed overview of architectural and archaeological features, and artifacts remaining at various sites. The result is a unique and poignant resource for anyone interested in the facts about what the authors call these 'sites of shame.'" — University of Washington Press

Imprisoned Apart — The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple by Louis Fiser
U of W Press 1995 Softcover 316 pp $19.95

The U of W Press: "Scholar Iwao Matsushita was interned as an enemy alien at Fort Missoula in Montana, his wife Hanaye at the Mindoka Relocation Center in southwestern Idaho. Their letters tell a poignant story of ignominy and despair." Multicultural Review: This is a remarkable book. Although its focus is on the correspondence between a husband and wife during the first 2 years of WWI...the thorough research and broad background make this a valuable resource on the internment."

And Justice For All — An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps By John Teteishi,
1999 U of W Press softcover 259 pp $17.95

"At the outbreak of World War II, more than 115,000 Japanese American civilians living on the West Coast of the U.S. were rounded up and sent to desolate 'relocation' camps, where most spent the duration of the war. In this poignant and bitter yet inspiring oral history, John Teteishi allows 30 Japanese Americans, victims of this trauma, to speak for themselves." — University of Washington Press

Personal Justice Denied — Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians Foreword by Tetsuden Kashima
U of W Press, 1996 softcover 492 pp $18.95

"A document of profound historical significance, Personal Justice Denied is testament to the fragility of democracy, but also to its strength when we the people resolve to right a great wrong." — Gary Okihiro

Citizen 13660 by Miné Okubo
(1946, UWP ed. 1983) softcover 226 pp $14.95

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This poignantly written and beautifully illustrated memoir of life in a relocation center by a Japanese American woman was first published in 1946. "A remarkably objective and vivid and even humorous account...In dramatic and detailed drawings and brief text, she documents the whole episode...Min&ecaute; was everywhere with her sketch pad, recording all that she saw, objectively, yet with a warmth of understanding." — New York Times Book Review