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For the Teacher
Learning Objectives -
Unit
• Understand the history of Japanese immigration to the United States, the laws regarding Japanese Americans rights to citizenship and property, and the racial discrimination against the Japanese that preceded internment during World War II.
• Describe the physical existence in the internment camps and the day-to-day life of internees.
• Use GIS software to analyze demographic changes in the Japanese American population as a result of internment.
• Analyze the demographic characteristics of the interned Japanese American population in relation to stereotypes held at the time.
• Analyze primary and secondary documents and explain how historical perspectives on the internment experience have changed in the years since World War II.
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Related National Standards
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GIS Activities -
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| GIS assignments are an integrated part of the materials in this collection. Students will need access to either My World GIS, a software package designed for middle and secondary student use, or ArcGIS, a professional GIS software package.
The GIS files for this unit are available to download:
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The data and images in the various map layers are from a variety of sources:
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California
County Level Data |
Shape files from Minnesota Population Center. National Historical Geographic Information System: Pre-release Version 0.1. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota 2004.
Census data from Historical Census Browser. Retrieved February, 2007 from the University of Virginia, Geospatial and Statistical Data Center.
Census data from Historical Census Browser. Retrieved February, 2007 from the University of Virginia, Geospatial and Statistical Data Center:
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Records About
Japanese Americans
Relocated During
World War II |
Series from Record Group 210: Records of the War Relocation Authority. Retrieved February, 2007 from the National Archives and Records Administration. |
| Locations of Major World War II Military Bases in California |
Warren A. Beck and Ynez D. Haase, Historical Atlas of California, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974. |
North America Relief Map |
Tom Patterson, Physical Map of the Coterminous United States, Shaded Relief, 2009. |
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Acknowledgments -
- Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project is a digital archive of videotaped interviews, photographs, documents, and other materials relating to the Japanese American experience during World War II.
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Additional Resources -
- Greg Robinson, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
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- Alice Yang Murray, editor, What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean?, New York: Bedford/St. Matin's, 2000.
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Contact -
Your comments and suggestion about these materials are more than welcome.
If you have ideas for additional topics that would lend themselves to the approach taken here, please pass them along. I'd enjoy collaborating with you.
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