Remembrance is Resistance
Resources regarding the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans
While there is always more to learn, we hope these resources can act as a good starting point for you to learn about social justice issues, research organizations that could benefit from your support, and find out how to take action in your own community!
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ARTICLES & DIGITAL READINGS
Remembering a lost city: 10th annual Vanport Mosaic serves as ‘memory activism’
Nihonmachi: A Tour of Portland’s Lost Japanese American Community
Japanese-American Internment: Ansel Adams Exhibit Delayed 75 Years
Soil from Portland helps memorialize Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII
Japanese American Incarceration during World War II
‘I Will Never Be Able to Forget’: George Takei Shares Internment Experience with Chapman
Japanese Evacuees, Portland Assembly Center
Not Exactly Paradise: Japanese American Internment Camps
Japanese American Museum of Oregon: Traveling Trunk Lessons
BOOKS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
They Called Us Enemy | George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, Artwork by Harmony Becker
Strangers From a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans | Ronald Takaki
When Can We Go Back to America? | Susan Kamei
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal about the Japanese American Incarceration | Elizabeth Partridge and Lauren Tamaki
We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration | Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura, Artwork by Ross Ishikawa and Matt Sasaki
Farewell to Manzanar | Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
WATCH
OREGON’S JAPANESE AMERICANS BEYOND THE WIRE | Oregon Public Broadcasting
THEN THEY CAME FOR ME | Alphawood Gallery
LIFE IN A US JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT CAMP | Oregon Experience, OPB
HISTORY OF PORTLAND’S JAPANTIME KEPT ALIVE BY MUSEUM, ARCHITECTURE CETNER (feat. Chisao Hata) | KOIN 6
LOYAL AMERICAN: REVEALING THE LASTING IMPACT OF JAPANESE INCARCERATION OF WWII | National Geographic Education
LISTEN
OPB Think Out Loud: Stories of Resistance: Interview with George Nakata and Linda Tamura
SUPPORT
VANPORT MOSAIC | The Vanport Mosaic is a memory-activism platform. We amplify, honor, present, and preserve the silenced histories that surround us in order to understand our present—and create a future where we all belong.
JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF OREGON (JAMO) | The mission of the Japanese American Museum of Oregon is to preserve and honor the history and culture of Japanese Americans in the Pacific Northwest, educate the public about the Japanese American experience during WWII, and advocate for the protection of civil rights for all Americans.
FRIENDS OF MINIDOKA | Friends of Minidoka is the donor-supported nonprofit partner for Minidoka National Historic Site. Established in 2002, our mission is to preserve, protect, and educate about the lessons and legacy of the unconstitutional incarceration of Japanese Americans at the Minidoka concentration camp during WWII.