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In this collection<\/a>, the primary source of data is material from the War Relocation Authority, a government agency that advocated for Japanese American “internment, resettlement, and enlistment in the armed forces…”, which can immediately be identified as an institution that is\/was invested in maintaining narratives of Japanese internment as being justified. As such, those particular sources are likely to minimize, justify, or avoid discussing the losses and troubles of Japanese Americans who were interned.<\/p>\n However, it is somewhat assuaged by the other boxes, which include information from the perspective of Japanese American individuals who were interned, or who served in the military. These cover some issues such as facing racism in the armed forces, the anti-Japanese sentiment of the time, troubles with reintegration into their previous communities, and conditions within the camps themselves.<\/p>\n There are certain potential problems with these accounts as well. While not unilaterally so, there is a culture of shame and silence surrounding Japanese American internment, characterized by the phrase “shikata ga nai”, roughly translating to\u00a0“there’s nothing to be done”. Values in the Japanese American community often\u00a0privilege silence and a determined acceptance of unfair conditions, rather than advocacy or an attempt to raise complaints. There are many narratives from individuals whose parents or grandparents continue to refuse to even talk about the experience, let alone attempt to remedy them.<\/p>\n This presents a unique challenge to researchers in that, in many ways, neither party wishes to actually confront the facts of what happened in the Japanese American Internment Camps, and it would require deep, complex ties and sensitivity to the community to adequately understand and shape this narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this collection, the primary source of data is material from the War Relocation Authority, a government agency that advocated for Japanese American “internment, resettlement, and enlistment in the … Continue reading “Finding Aid for the Collection of Material about Japanese American Internment, 1929-1956 bulk 1942-1946”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}