{"id":9244,"date":"2023-05-15T14:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T19:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/latin-american-caribbean-studies\/?page_id=9244"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:19:20","slug":"japanese-latin-americans-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/latin-american-caribbean-studies\/k-16-educator-resources\/teaching-resources\/japanese-latin-americans-world-war-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Latin Americans &amp; World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"size-p-sm\">Note: All links below are to external sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-clacs-event-recordings\">CLACS Event Recordings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignright uwm-c-img--right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/latin-american-caribbean-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/329\/2023\/05\/JLA-resources-page.png\" alt=\"Japanese Latin Americans internment\" class=\"wp-image-9258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/latin-american-caribbean-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/329\/2023\/05\/JLA-resources-page.png 400w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/latin-american-caribbean-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/329\/2023\/05\/JLA-resources-page-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3Zwu46NnzX0\">Inside an Invisible Iron Wall: The Forced Relocation of Japanese and Japanese Mexicans during WWII<\/a><br>Dr. Jerry Garc\u00eda (Sea Mar Community Health Centers), 3\/21\/2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7McIWMqhsZw\">\u201cYou Brought Us Here\u201d: The Plight of Japanese Peruvians in World War II U.S. Incarceration<\/a><br>Dr Natasha Varner, Densho, 4\/20\/2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GVC1awCT4g0\">Resisting Racism: Japanese Immigrants and Japanese Brazilians, 1930-1954<\/a><br>Dr. Jeffrey Lesser (Emory University), 5\/11\/2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wE2mYk2739g\">Japanese Latin Americans U.S. WWII Incarceration: Accountability and Redress<\/a><br>Dr. Stephanie Moore (UC-Santa Cruz) and Grace Shimizu (Director, Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project and Director, Campaign for Justice: Redress NOW for Japanese Latin Americans!), 5\/10\/2023 (<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1q2ovqjoM6h76LGz2YhaQtsme2aC10Mh4\/view?usp=share_link\">Spanish language recording<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-websites\">Websites<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jlacampaignforjustice.org\/\">Campaign for Justice<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/densho.org\/\">Densho<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/njahs.org\/enemy-alien-files\/\">Enemy Alien Files:&nbsp; Hidden Stories of WWII (Exhibit)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.csudh.edu\/japanese-americans-peruvians\">Japanese American\/Peruvian Collections<\/a><br>at California State University Dominguez Hills<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/japanese-peruvian-oral-history-excerpts\/\">Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-video\">Video<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CRTVFeIy0TM\">Hidden Internment:&nbsp; The Art Shibayama Story<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-curriculum\">Curriculum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rethinkingschools.org\/articles\/the-other-internment-teaching-the-hidden-story-of-japanese-latin-americans-during-wwii\/\">The &#8220;Other&#8221; Internment: Teaching the Hidden Story of Japanese Latin Americans during WWII<\/a> Yonamine, Moe, Rethinking Schools, v25 n1 p40-46 Fall 2010<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-further-reading-in-english\">Further reading in English<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Friedman, Max Paul.&nbsp;<em>Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign Against the Germans of Latin America in World War II<\/em>. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Garcia, Jerry.&nbsp;<em>Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony, 1897\u20131945<\/em>. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gardiner, C. Harvey.&nbsp;<em>Pawns in a Triangle of Hate: The Peruvian Japanese and the United States<\/em>. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Higashide, Seiichi.&nbsp;<em>Adios to Tears: The Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian Internee in U.S. Concentration Camps<\/em>. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000 [1993].<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mak, Stephen. &#8220;America&#8217;s Other Internment: World War II and the Making of Modern Human Rights.&#8221; Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University, 2009.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Masterson, Daniel M. with Sayaka Funada-Classen.&nbsp;<em>The Japanese in Latin America<\/em>. 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