Getting Started - Japanese American Internment - Research Guides at Tufts University

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Use the following keywords related to Japanese American Internment to help you search for books, articles and other sources.

internment
relocation
incarceration
assembly center(s)
War Relocation Authority
relocation center(s)
Manzanar, Topaz, Poston, etc. (names of camps)
internment camp
citizen isolation camps
concentration camp(s)
camp residents
detainees
internees

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Background Sources on Japanese American Internment

These books are available in print. See below for location and a brief description.

Japanese American internment during World War II : a history and reference guide

Call Number: Tisch Book Stacks: D769.8.A6 N4 2002

Provides a chronology of events in Japanese American History (focusing on internment), historical essays, and a collection of photographs related to the internenment camp experience, brief biographies of persons linked to the internment, primary documents and excerpts, and a bibliography.

Japanese American history : an A-to-Z reference from 1868 to the present

Call Number: Tisch Reference: E184.J3 J3355 1993

Divided into three sections: a narrative historical overview, a chronology of Japanese American history, and a dictionary of entries related to Japanese American history.

Reference Library of Asian America

Call Number: Tisch Reference: E184.O6 R45 1995

Volume 1, Chapter 8 of this collection discusses the history of Japanese Americans in the United States.

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Keyword Searching

Keyword Search Rules for the Library Catalog and Databases

Using AND/OR/NOT (Boolean Search Operators)
AND	Use AND to focus search and combine different aspects of your topic. Example: Japanese Americans and internment camps
OR	Use OR to expand your search and find synonyms/related terms. Example: internment or relocation or evacuation
NOT	Use NOT to exclude a word or phrase from your search

Using AND/OR/NOT (Boolean Search Operators)

AND

Use AND to focus search and combine different aspects of your topic.

Example: Japanese Americans and internment camps

Use OR to expand your search and find synonyms/related terms.

Example: internment or relocation or evacuation

NOT

Use NOT to exclude a word or phrase from your search

Additional Search Tips
"Phrase search" - Use quotation marks" " to search for a particular phrase. Example: "War Relocation Authority"
Truncation * - Use an asterisk to find variations of a word. Put an asterisk following the root of the word to find all variations of that word, including singular and plural. Example: famil* (searches family, families, etc.)
(Grouping/Nesting Keywords) - Use parentheses ( ) as a way to group all your search terms together. Example: Japanese Americans and (reparations or redress)

Additional Search Tips

"Phrase search" - Use quotation marks" " to search for a particular phrase.

Example: "War Relocation Authority"

Truncation * - Use an asterisk to find variations of a word. Put an asterisk following the root of the word to find all variations of that word, including singular and plural.

Example: famil* (searches family, families, etc.)

(Grouping/Nesting Keywords) - Use parentheses ( ) as a way to group all your search terms together.

Example: Japanese Americans and (reparations or redress)

See the Basic Search Tips guides for more information, including examples.

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