DoubleVictorySuggestedResources


 * Other books by Ronald Takaki **

// A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America //, Back Bay Books, Revised edition, 2008.

// Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans //, Back Bay Books, Rev Upd edition, 1998.

// A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, With Voices //, Back Bay Books, 1998.

// Hiroshima //// : Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb //, Back Bay Books, 1996.

** Web Materials **

“Book Review: Double Victory.” History Net. 11 August 2001. [] Link to review of //Double Victory// by Stephen Puleo on the historynet.com website.

“Remembering Ron Takaki.” //Asian Week//. 27 May 2009. [] Link to ‘Remembering Ron Takaki,’ published in //Asian Week// after Professor Takaki’s death in May 2009 at age 70. The grandson of Japanese plantation laborers in Hawaii, he became a prolific ethnic studies scholar and taught at UC Berkeley.

“America in a Different Mirror with Ron Takaki.” Sonoma State University. [] Takaki 60-minute lecture on how to teach a truly multicultural history and not teach this history as ‘an add on’. Quite brilliant and I wish I had had the opportunity to sit in front of him even once!

“Double V for Victory.” [] Photo and poster titled ‘Why Should We March’ with slogans: ‘Free From Want, Free From Fear, Free From Jim Crow’ (if you click on the photo it will blow the photo and poster up to a more readable size).

“The Pittsburgh Courier during World War II.” [] Link to a site explaining the roots of the VV campaign in // The Pittsburgh Courier // during World War II. //The Courier// was one of the leaders of the black press leading up to and during the war. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of //The Courier// during this time. //The Courier// was the creator of the Double V campaign, which was promoted civil rights and American success in the war.

“Zoot Suit Riots.” American Experience. PBS. [] Interactive PBS web site from its American Experience series on the Zoot Suit Riots; includes timeline, gallery of photos, teacher’s guide, guide to further reading, and a fantastic set of primary source letters. Much of it in English and Spanish, – an A+ site.

Baulch, Vivian M. and Patricia Zacharias. “The 1943 Detroit Race Riots.” //The Detroit News// 11 February 1999. [] Link to a recent newspaper article in the //Detroit News// taking a long look back at the 1943 riot in Detroit.

“Exploring the Japanese-American Internment through Film and the Internet.” National Asian American Telecommunications Association. [] President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the mass incarceration of over 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Two-thirds were American citizens. Over half were children or infants.

“Children of the Camps: The Documentary.” PBS. [] This site supplements a recent PBS documentary titled ‘Children of the Camps’. ‘Children of the Camps’ is a one-hour documentary that portrays the poignant stories of six Japanese Americans who were interned as children.

Eng, Robert. “Japanese Internment: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources.” [] This site contains an annotated directory of Internet resources on the Internment.

“Internment of San Francisco Japanese.” The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco. [] Site is the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco. It contains lots of primary sources and a collection of articles from the //San Francisco News// during March 1942 when the Executive order was signed.

“Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar.” American Memory. The Library of Congress. [] Famed photographer Ansel Adams took a series of 242 photographs at the Manzanar War Relocation Center. Photos can be found at this site.

Burns, Ken. // The War. //PBS. // []  // Companion website for the Ken Burns PBS documentary. The U.S. Army and Matters of Race During WWII (PBS) @http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/alaska/peopleevents/e_army.html A Survey of the African American struggle to break through racial barriers in WWII. Includes a link to Truman’s executive order to desegregate the military. US Latinos and Latinas in WWII @http://utopia.utexas.edu/explore/latino/index.html A project organized by the University of Texas at Austin to capture the stories of Latinos and Latinas during WWII. The site features web versions of the journal published from 1999 to 2004, which contain the narratives of soldiers and civilians involved in the war effort. A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution @http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/index.html A multi-media Smithsonian site, which treats many aspects of the internment, starting with background and ending with the 1987 court cases. Site discusses of the constitutionality of a government’s actions during war and includes a “Reflections” area where visitors can share their thoughts on a variety of posted questions. Go for Broke (Japanese American World War II veterans) @http://www.goforbroke.org/ The history of Japanese American regiments from WWII with interactive maps and descriptions of the campaigns they were involved in, as well as an oral history video archive, lesson plans for teachers and assignments for students.