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Bibliography and Links

Related Publications (nonfiction):



Marc Dollinger. The Quest for Inclusion (2000).

Timothy Fong. The First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey Park, California (1994).

Brian Masaru Hayashi. Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment (2004).

John Horton. The Politics of Diversity: Immigration, Resistance, and Change in Monterey Park, California (1995).

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston. Farewell to Manzanar.

Ava Kahn and Marc Dollinger, eds. California Jews (2003).

Deborah Dash Moore. To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L.A. (1996).

Leland Saito. Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb (1998).

Ronald Takaki. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (1989).

Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family.

Web / Multimedia Suggestions:



The Aftermath of the Holocaust
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005129

The Chinese American Experience in the San Gabriel Valley
http://www.camla.org/history/sangabri.htm

Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles
http://www.camla.org/index.htm


Japanese Internment
http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html

http://www.jainternment.org/


Jews in America: Our Story
http://www.jewsinamerica.org/

Southern California Chinatowns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_California_Chinatowns




Films / Documentaries:



Displaced Persons. Directed by Geoffrey Nottage, 1985.

Of Civil Rights and Wrongs (2001).

Something Strong Within (1995).


Terminology links:



Cantonese
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_language

Displaced Persons Act
http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/history/1948displacedpersonsact.htm

Executive Order 9066
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5154

Holocaust
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/

Japanese internment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment

Mandarin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese

Pearl Harbor
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/


People’s Republic of China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China

Republic of China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China



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