Library Resources

Library Resources

Allbritton, Nicole Ashley. “The Women of Japanese-American Internment, with Emphasis on Rohwer and Jerome.” MA thesis, University of Arkansas, 2010.

Anderson, William G. “Early Reaction in Arkansas to the Relocation of Japanese in the State.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 23 (Autumn 1964): 196–211

Bearden, Russell E. “The False Rumor of Tuesday: Arkansas’s Internment of Japanese-Americans.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 41 (Winter 1982): 327–339.

———. “Life Inside Arkansas’s Japanese American Relocation Centers.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 47 (Summer 1989): 170–196.

Burton, Jeffrey F. (ed.) Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2002.

Bynum, Marci K. “Rohwer and Jerome: The Elementary Education of Japanese American Students in Arkansas Relocation Camps.” MA thesis, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. 1994.

Cashion, Scott. “Actions Speak Louder than Words… Sometimes: Reactions to the Wartime Evacuation and Internment of Japanese-Americans at Rohwer and Jerome.” MA thesis, University of Arkansas. 2006.

Cates, Rita Takahashi. “Comparative Administration and Management of Five War Relocation Authority Camps: America’s Incarceration of Persons of Japanese Descent During World War II.” Doctoral thesis, University of Pittsburgh. 1980.

Community analysis reports and community analysis trend reports of the War Relocation Authority, 1942-1946. United States. War Relocation Authority. Washington, [D.C.]: National Archives and Records Administration. Center for Arkansas History and Culture, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Spec Coll Film 251.

Daniels, Roger. Concentration Camps: North America. Malabar, FL: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co. Inc. 1981.

Department of the Interior War Relocation Authority. Semi-annual Report: July 1 to December 31, 1943. Washington, [D.C.]: Department of the Interior. 1943.

Eaton, Allen H. Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps. New York: Harper. 1952

Field Basic Documentation of the War Relocation Authority, 1942-1946: Arkansas. United States. War Relocation Authority. Washington, [D.C.]: National Archives and Records Administration. Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System. MICROFILM D769.8.A8.

Gallion, Susan. Inside View of Concentration Camps in Arkansas. McGehee, AR: Susan Gallion. 2013.

Herrelson, Parker. Rohwer Camp. Columbia College-Lake of the Ozarks: Parker Harrelson, 2014.

Howard, John. Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2008.

Inada, Lawson Fusao, ed. Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese Internment Experience. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books. 2000.

Japanese American evacuation and resettlement records, ca. 1941-1953. United States. War Relocation Authority. Washington, [D.C.]: National Archives and Records Administration. Center for Arkansas History and Culture, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Spec Coll Film 254.

Jerome Relocation Center. Duty Manual. Denson, AR: The Center. 1943. Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville.

Kim, Kristine. Henry Sugimoto: Painting an American Experience. Berkeley, California: Heyday Books, 2001.

Krug, J.A. and Myer, D.S. The Wartime Handling of Evacuee Property. Washington, [D.C.]: Department of the Interior. 1946. Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System. ARK PAM 01451.

Lehman, Anthony L. Birthright of Barbed Wire: The Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press. 1970.

Moss, Dori Felice. “Strangers in Their Own Land: A Cultural History of Japanese American Internment Camps in Arkansas, 1942–1945.” MA thesis, Georgia State University. 2007.

Smith, Austin. Papers relating to Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, AR. United States. War Relocation Authority. Center for Arkansas History and Culture. University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Spec Coll Film 253.

Smith, C. Calvin. “The Response of Arkansas to Prisoners of War and Japanese Americans in Arkansas, 1942–1945.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 53 (Autumn 1994): 340–364.

Spicer, Edward H. Impounded People: Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 1969.

Stewart, Colburn Cox. Inside View Japanese American Evacuee Center at Rohwer, Arkansas, 1941-1945. McGehee, AR: McGehee Publishing Company. 1979.

Time of Fear. VHS,DVD. PHS Home Video. 2004.

Twyford, Holly Feltman. “Nisei in Arkansas: The Plight of Japanese American Youths in the Arkansas Internment Camps of World War II.” MA thesis, University of Arkansas, 1993.

Relocation center construction specifications for Jerome and Rohwer Relocation Centers. United States. War Relocation Authority. Washington, [D.C.]: National Archives and Records Administration. Record Group 210, Series 54.

Relocation center layout drawings for Jerome and Rohwer Relocation Centers. United States. War Relocation Authority. Washington, [D.C.]: National Archives and Records Administration. Record Group 210, Series 53.

Rohwer and Jerome relocation center photographs. United States. War Relocation Authority. Washington, [D.C.]: National Archives and Records Administration. Record Group 210, series 14.

Vickers, Ruth. “Japanese American Relocation.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly. (Summer 1951): 168-176.

Ward, Jason Morgan. “‘No Jap Crow’: Japanese Americans Encounter the World War II South.” Journal of Southern History 73 (February 2007): 75–104.

Ziegler, Jan Fielder. “Listening to ‘Miss Jamison’: Lessons from the Schoolhouse at a Japanese Internment Camp, Rohwer Relocation Center.” Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 33 (August 2002): 137–146.

———. The Schooling of Japanese American Children at Relocation Centers During World War II: Miss Mabel Jamison and Her Teaching of Art at Rohwer, Arkansas. Lewiston, NY: The Mellen Press. 2005.