Placing Memory, 3: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment

by Todd Stewart, Karen J. Leong, Todd Stewart

When the U.S. government incarcerated 120,000 Japanese Americans as "domestic enemy aliens" during World War II, most other Americans succumbed to their fears and endorsed the confinement of their fellow citizens. Ten "relocation centers" were scattered across the West. Today, in the crumbling foundations, overgrown yards, and material artifacts of these former internment camps, we can still sense the injustices suffered there. Placing Memory is a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080613951X
• ISBN13: 9780806139517
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 12.3" x 9.3"