This topical collection includes objects used by inmates in Japanese American Incarceration camps. It is one in a series of collections, each containing different types of resources, about the Japanese American Incarceration; see also Japanese American Incarceration: Images of Camp Life, Japanese Incarceration: Publications, Letters, and Other Documents, and Japanese American Incarceration: Articles and Videos about Inmate Experiences.
In February 1942, following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 and authorized the imprisonment of approximately 75,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry and 45,000 Japanese nationals in incarceration camps. This order was not rescinded until 1945.
Teachers and students may use this collection as a springboard for classroom discussion; for example, what types of objects inmates created during their…
Japanese American Incarceration: Camp Objects
- Published by:
- Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology
- Created by:
- Tess Porter
- Date Published
- February 06, 2018
- Last Modified
- November 05, 2021
- Description
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This topical collection includes objects used by inmates in Japanese American Incarceration camps. It is one in a series of collections, each containing different types of resources, about the Japanese American Incarceration; see also Japanese American Incarceration: Images of Camp Life, Japanese Incarceration: Publications, Letters, and Other Documents, and Japanese American Incarceration: Articles and Videos about Inmate Experiences.
In February 1942, following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 and authorized the imprisonment of approximately 75,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry and 45,000 Japanese nationals in incarceration camps. This order was not rescinded until 1945.
Teachers and students may use this collection as a springboard for classroom discussion; for example, what types of objects inmates created during their incarceration and why they created these objects. This collection is not comprehensive but rather provides a launching point for research and study.
This Smithsonian Learning Lab collection received Federal support from the Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.
Keywords: internment camp, world war ii, ww2, wwii, gaman
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- Notes to Other Users
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“In the 1940s, the War Relocation Authority, charged with implementing Executive Order 9066, used bureaucratic terminology to describe its operation. Scholars and members of the Japanese American community have since raised questions about how this language shaped or even distorted perceptions of the federal government’s actions. They have developed alternate terminology to more accurately describe what happened, terms that are gradually becoming more widely accepted.
Original term / Current term
Exclusion / Eviction
Evacuation / Forced removal
Internment / Incarceration
Internee / Inmate
Assembly center / Temporary detention center
Relocation center / Incarceration camp**One of the most contested proposed changes in terminology is to designate the incarceration camps as concentration camps—a term still closely associated with Nazi death camps.”
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