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Click here to access the Student Digital Exhibition of the Japanese American Relocation Centers Records at Cornell University. Here you will find select primary documents from the Japanese American Relocation Centers Records accompanied by student historical analysis. The exhibition is a part of a class project from two courses taught by Dr. Chrissy Yee Lau, including AAS 2130: Introduction to Asian American History and AAS 3470: Asian American Women’s History. This class project comes out of collaboration between the Asian American Studies Program and the Rare Manuscript Division.
The goal of this digital exhibition is to bring public attention to the historical documents located at this unique archive and to offer an analytical insight, with attention to race, gender, class, and generation, into the incarceration experiences of Japanese Americans during World War II.
To assist their analysis of the Records archive, students utilized the wide range of secondary sources from the Asian American Resource Center. For a list of notable publications exploring the topic of Japanese American Incarceration, please contact the department.
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