Japanese Latin Americans & World War II

Note: All links below are to external sites.

CLACS Event Recordings

• Inside an Invisible Iron Wall: The Forced Relocation of Japanese and Japanese Mexicans during WWII
  Dr. Jerry García (Sea Mar Community Health Centers), 3/21/2022
• “You Brought Us Here”: The Plight of Japanese Peruvians in World War II U.S. Incarceration
  Dr Natasha Varner, Densho, 4/20/2022
• Resisting Racism: Japanese Immigrants and Japanese Brazilians, 1930-1954
  Dr. Jeffrey Lesser (Emory University), 5/11/2022
• Japanese Latin Americans U.S. WWII Incarceration: Accountability and Redress
  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 (Spanish language recording)

Websites

• Campaign for Justice
• Densho
• Enemy Alien Files:  Hidden Stories of WWII (Exhibit)
• Japanese American/Peruvian Collections
  at California State University Dominguez Hills
• Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project

Video

• Hidden Internment:  The Art Shibayama Story

Curriculum

• The “Other” Internment: Teaching the Hidden Story of Japanese Latin Americans during WWII Yonamine, Moe, Rethinking Schools, v25 n1 p40-46 Fall 2010

Further reading in English

• Friedman, Max Paul. Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign Against the Germans of Latin America in World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• Garcia, Jerry. Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony, 1897–1945. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014.
• Gardiner, C. Harvey. Pawns in a Triangle of Hate: The Peruvian Japanese and the United States. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981.
• Higashide, Seiichi. Adios to Tears: The Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian Internee in U.S. Concentration Camps. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000 [1993].
• Mak, Stephen. “America’s Other Internment: World War II and the Making of Modern Human Rights.” Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University, 2009.
• Masterson, Daniel M. with Sayaka Funada-Classen. The Japanese in Latin America. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004.