This week, we are highlighting archaeological work done on Japanese American internment camps. We've included a few resources that are not specifically about archaeology but that provide background and additional context.
On Saturday, July 11, tune in for Japanese American Incarceration on Indigenous Lands, a panel discussion. Information is on Facebook, but you can also watch it by livestream on YouTube.
More on this can be seen in this short audio piece from PRI The World: Japanese Americans weren't the only US citizens housed in camps.
Listen to a podcast with Bonnie Clark about her work at Amache, a Japanese-American Internment Camp that operated during WWII, and descendant populations (from The Archaeology Podcast Network).
Read an overview of Archaeology of the Japanese American Incarceration provided by the Densho Encyclopedia.
Check out the work being done by Stacy Camp, a professor at Michigan State University at Kooskia Internment Camp Archaeological Project. Her Internment Archaeology website has a lot of resources to explore.
Also check out this piece from the National Park Service on archaeological work at several sites: Japanese American Life During Internment and this short video about excavations by University of Denver: Archaeological Dig at Amache Internment Camp.
For additional context, here is a Radiolab episode about Korematzu v. United States.
You may also enjoy reading letters that Japanese American children and young adults wrote during their incarceration to Clara Breed, the librarian at the San Diego public library. The Clara Breed collection is made available from the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.
Finally, check out the extensive and well-documented collection of photos by Berkeley photographer Dorothea Lange at the Densho Digital Repository.