seattle university - a.a. lemieux library
freshmen reading 2000
snow falling on cedars - david guterson

the time
"The world was one world, and the notion that a man might kill another over some small patch of it did not make sense--though Ishmael knew that such things happened. He had been to war, after all." (Guterson, pg. 321)

(Photo: The Seattle Times)

japanese american soldiers prejudice and propaganda the home front post - traumatic stress tip of the iceberg

japanese american soldiers "Sergeant Maples recollected for the court his astonishment in early 1943 when the 442nd--composed of Nisei boys--began training at Camp Shelby. These were boys from the internment camps, enlistees headed for the European theater, and among them, Sergeant Maples recalled, was the defendant , Kabuo Miyamoto." (Guterson, pg. 282)

(Photo: War Relocation Authority)

• National Japanese American Historical Society |Page 1 | Page 2
• "Conflict behind the battle lines" -- San Francisco Chronicle, Sept 24, 1995

books in the library

• Linderman, Gerald F.
  World within war, America's combat experience in World War II
  Free Press, 1997
  D769.2 L56 1997
• Takaki, Ronald
  Double victory, a multicultural history of America in World War II
  Little, Brown and Co., 2000
  D769 T42 2000

videos in the library

• Color of honor: the Japanese American soldier in WWII
  D769.8 .A6 C55 1989 (CircDesk)

prejudice and propaganda "It was all propaganda," added Ishmael. "They wanted us to be able to kill them with no remorse, to make them less than people. None of it is fair or true, but at the same time I find myself thinking about it whenever I look at Miyamoto sitting there staring straight ahead. They could have used his face for one of their propaganda films--he's that inscrutable." (Guterson, pg. 344-345)

(Poster: NARA -- NWDNS-44-PA-97) "Posters of Persuasion"

• Visual images of prejudice -- MIT Asian American Studies Homepage
• "Savages, swines & buffoons"-- Ralph R. Donald. Article on Propaganda and Films
• Internment and evacuation of Japanese Americans -- Museum of the City of San Francisco. Timeline of stories from March-April 1942.

photos

• Posters of persuasion -- National Archives and Records Administration
• Japanese propaganda posters --From a student at Stanford University
• WWII poster database -- Northwestern University Library

books in the library

• Doherty, Thomas
  Projections of war, Hollywood, American culture and World War II
  Columbia Univ. Press, 1993
  D743.23 . D63 1993
• Rhodes, Anthony Richard Ewart.
  Propaganda: the art of persuasion : World War II
  Chelsea House, 1976
  940.5488 R346P

the home front "The island Grange committed itself to the defense of San Piedro and promised in a letter to the secretary of agriculture to "see to the production of such fruits and vegetables as can be grown on our island and as our fighting forces might need." The army asked owners of mules and horses on San Piedro to register their animals with the county agent, describing the request in the pages of the Review as a "a patriotic obligation"; islanders were also asked to check their automobile tires and to drive in a manner consistent with preserving them: rubber was in short supply. " (Guterson, pg.189)

(Poster: Northwestern Univ. Library) "WWII Poster Database"

• World War II, the Home Front Lecture Notes
• Fighters on the farmfront -- Oregon's Emergency Farm Labor Service, 1943-1947
• Japanese American Citizen's League in WWII
• San Francisco Museum -- Newspaper articles

books in the library

• Berner, Richard
  Seattle in the twentieth century.
  Seattle, Wash: Charles Press, c1991-1999
  F899.S457 B47 1991 v.3
• Gamboa, Erasmo
  Mexican labor and World War II, braceros in the Pacific Northwest,
  1942-1947
  Austin: Univ of Texas Press, 1990
  HD1527 A19 G36 1990
• Kesselman, Amy Vita, 1944-
  Fleeting opportunities: women shipyard workers in Portland and Vancouver during World War II and reconversion Albany : State University of New York Press, c1990.
  HD6073. S52 U64 1990

videos in the library

• American in the 40's: a sentimental journey.
  E169.A493 1997 3 vols. (CircDesk)
• The Greatest Generation
  D811 .A2 G74 1999 (CircDesk)
• The Century -- Civilians at War
  E741 .C3346 1999 v.6 (CircDesk)
• The Century -- Homefront
  E741 .C3346 1999 v.7 (CircDesk)
  

post-traumatic stress "His cynicism--a veteran's cynicism--was a thing that disturbed him all the time. It seemed to him after the war that the world was thoroughly altered. It was not even a thing you could explain to anybody, why it was that everything was folly. People appeared enormously foolish to him." (Guterson, pg. 35)

(Photo: A.Garlikov)

• WWII Oral History
• History Veterans Outreach Center -- The Historical Perspective

books in the library

• Schwartz, Harvey J. ed.,
  Psychotherapy of the Combat Veteran.
  New York: Spectrum, 1984.
  RC 550 P78 1984
• "Intergenerational effects of the Japanese American internment" by Donna K. Nagata.
  Intergenerational handbook of multigenerational legacies of trauma.
  Edited by Yael Danieli
  New York: Plenum, 1988.
  RC552 P67 I578 1998
  

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