Shimomura, Roger. An Artist’s Japanese American Experience. The Artist’s Story. Bellevue Art Museum Education Program, Bellevue, Washington, 1998 Slides of Shimomura’s work can be obtained
Shimomura, Roger. An American Diary. Exhibition catalogue, Japanese American National Museum. Fall 1999
Artist’s Statements: Susan Cahan and Zoya Koscur, Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Routledge Publ.1996
Lucy Lippard, Mixed Blessings, The New Press, New York, 1990.
Margo Machida, Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, Asian Society Galleries, The New Press, New York, 1994
Internet Resources Propaganda Resources (visual)
Powers of Persuasion-Posters of World War II www.nara.gov/education/teaching/posters/poster.html
Historical Perspectives on the Japanese Internment (posters) Japanese American Museum www.njamf.org/exclude.html
Civilian Exclusion Order, can be downloaded at: Citizenship Denied: An integrated Unit on Japanese American Internment. www Intranet.csupomona.. edu/^tassi/intern.html
Films on video cassette.
Hatta, Kayo. “Picture Bride” Distributed by Miramax. (English and Japanese with English subtitles)
Story of a young Japanese woman who travels to Hawaii as a “picture bride” where she meets her husband for the first time. The film follows the woman through the many stages of understanding and reconciliation with her new life.
Children of the Camps -Documentary. National Asian American Telecommunications Association. www.neetanet.org
One hour documentary that portrays the stories of six Japanese Americans who were interned as children in U.S. concentration camps. It shows how deeply damaging the personal impact of racism is. Allows the viewers the opportunity to understand culture and familial consequences of growing up a scapegoated minority group member.
