On What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean?
Murray, Alice Yang. What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean?. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. pp. 163.
This is probably the best that I’ve come across on an introductory text to Japanese internment, alongside Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II (whose author has a selection in here). Yang Murray offers a quick overview of the history, then pulls selections from five other pieces (mostly legal in nature, but also relating to social history) to show major debates in the field and the way that histories of Japanese internment are done. There’s not a lot here that’s new, but it’s a great way to familiarize (or refamiliarize) yourself with the subject as it stood in 2000.