From the Inside Out: Thinking through the Archaeology of Japanese American Confinement

Clark, Burton R.; Shew, Dana Ogo

doi:10.1007/s10761-020-00576-2

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“… 17. The Amache project on the Japanese American Second World War camp includes placemaking in the repertoire of approaches to the internee and descendant experience: Clark and Shew 2021. …”

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Placemaking at Les Blanches Banques, Jersey’s First World War Prisoner of War Camp: Nested Landscapes of Internees and Guards

Mytum,

Carr,

Philpott

et al. 2023

Antiq. J.

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Most recent archaeological studies of prisoners of war have concentrated on resistance to confinement and identity creation within the camps. In contrast, the findings at Les Blanches Banques, Jersey, occupied by German military prisoners during the First World War, are here viewed through the lens of the varied placemaking strategies applied by both prisoners and camp staff. The prisoners created places of meaning within the regimented and confined conditions of their internment, but the guards were also limited by their duties in their assignment to this remote location, though all also saw the camp within its wider island landscape setting. This is the first study to consider placemaking at a prisoner of war camp at nested scales and from different perspectives.

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Placemaking at Les Blanches Banques, Jersey’s First World War Prisoner of War Camp: Nested Landscapes of Internees and Guards

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Carr,

Philpott

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Antiq. J.

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“…Furthermore, there was a lack of academic interest in twentieth century sites before the 1980s, which resulted in a lack of research on those sites (Ross 2020). However, cultural resource management projects, the National Parks Service, and the growing academic interest in Japanese diaspora helped the topic to become a popular subject in the context of archaeology (Clark and Shew 2020). This popularity was aided by the cultural significance of incarceration camps, which the federal government acknowledged through legislation and supporting research of incarceration camps, combined with the Redress movement which sought redress for Japanese Americans who were incarcerated as a result of 9066 (Clark and Shew 2020;Iijima et al 2020).…”

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“…Transnational approaches consider Issei and Nisei heritage, but more importantly they consider how their relationship with Japan and their Japanese identity may be maintained. Studies of war-era sites expanded on identity by focusing on expression of ethnic, national, and gender identity (along with limited examinations of sexual identity) in the context of confinement and resistance (Clark and Shew 2020;Lau-Ozawa 2020;Ross 2020). War-era sites primarily included incarceration camps (and some focus on Japanese military sites and U.S. detention facilities euphemistically referred to as "assembly centers" during the war).…”

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“…War-era sites primarily included incarceration camps (and some focus on Japanese military sites and U.S. detention facilities euphemistically referred to as "assembly centers" during the war). These facilities temporarily held individuals of Japanese descent until being sent to an incarceration camp (Lau- Ozawa 2019;Clark and Shew 2020;Ross 2020). This paper examines Japanese transnational processes and their effect on ceramic consumption and consumerism for Japanese Americans incarcerated at Manzanar during World War II.…”

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A Transnational Approach to the Ceramics of Manzanar

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Manzanar was one of ten sites used as an incarceration center for the forced removal of Japanese Americans during World War II. Manzanar is located in between Independence and Lone Pine, California and was in operation from 1942-1945. Archaeological surveys and excavations were conducted in 1993 by National Park Service archaeologists. This case study uses ceramic artifacts recovered from these excavations at Manzanar to study ceramic consumption patterns by Japanese Americans. The period of focus for this study is 1942-1945. Ceramics have been used successfully by archaeologists to explore the political, social, economic, and personal lives of individuals within a community. This thesis uses a transnational framework to expand on previous archaeological studies to explore how political, social, and economic relationships affected the consumption of ceramics by Japanese Americans. Glossary of TermsEuropean ceramics: European is meant in the contemporary geographical sense of the word, and includes British and German ceramics Executive Order 9066: The Executive Order signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt which authorized the Secretary of War to create of military zones which could exclude or keep in any persons.This Order was used to create military zones along the West Coast and remove Japanese Americans from their homes.Incarceration: this term is used in favor of terms such as "relocation" and "evacuation", which imply benevolence reasons for the removal of Japanese Americans, and "internment", which often refers to prisoners of war and "enemy aliens". This term acknowledges the euphemistic language of the time and the removal of American citizens who did nothing wrong.Issei: first generation Japanese who immigrated to the United States Japanese American: for the context of this topic, where incarceration camps held Americans of Japanese descent and Japanese immigrants who were prevented by U.S. policies from becoming citizens, Japanese American refers to people in the United States of Japanese descent regardless of citizenship Nisei:second generation Japanese Americans, children of Issei and American citizens at birth Nikkei: immigrant of Japanese descent that lives outside Japan, but is not specific to generation nor the country of residence War Relocation Authority (WRA): a civilian organization created by Franklin D. Roosevelt to decide where Japanese Americans would live after being forcibly removed from their homes, and would continue to have power of the incarcerated Japanese American population throughout the war via incarceration camps. vi

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Exploration of the value of Japanese-style gardens in incarceration camps during world war II: the case of the Amache, Colorado, U.S.

Akayama,

Clark,

Furuya

et al. 2024

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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From the Inside Out: Thinking through the Archaeology of Japanese American Confinement

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

Placemaking at Les Blanches Banques, Jersey’s First World War Prisoner of War Camp: Nested Landscapes of Internees and Guards

Placemaking at Les Blanches Banques, Jersey’s First World War Prisoner of War Camp: Nested Landscapes of Internees and Guards

A Transnational Approach to the Ceramics of Manzanar

Exploration of the value of Japanese-style gardens in incarceration camps during world war II: the case of the Amache, Colorado, U.S.

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