9.7: Suggested Readings
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- Allen, Robert L., The Port Chicago Mutiny: The Story of the Largest Mass Mutiny Trial in U.S. Naval History (New York: Warner Books, 1989). This book provides a detailed history of the Port Chicago mutiny in the context of race relations in the military and society at large.
- Daniels, Roger, Concentration Camps U.S.A: Japanese Americans and World War II (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1972) and From Relocation to Redress (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986). These two books provide a comprehensive overview of Japanese relocation and internment, the redress movement, and the personal experiences of internees.
- Irons, Peter, Justice Delayed: The Record of the Japanese American Internment Cases (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1989). This book provides an overview of the legal challenges to relocation and internment.
- Johnson, Marilyn, The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993). This book is a regional study, focusing on the political, economic, cultural, and demographic impact of the war on the San Francisco East Bay area.
- Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen, Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women in the East Bay Community (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996). This book, based on oral histories, examines African American migration from the South to the San Francisco East Bay area during World War II.
- Lotchin, Roger, ed., The Way We Really Were: The Golden State in the Second Great War (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000). This collection of essays details the war’s impact on California race relations, politics, industry (including Hollywood), and culture.
- Nash, Gerald D., The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985) and World War II and the West (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990). These two books provide a good overview of the war’s impact on California and the greater American West.
- Rosenthal, Nicolas, Re-Imagining Indian Country: American Indians and Cities in Modern America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012). This book is one of the first to detail the experience of urban Indians in 20th-century America, and includes significant coverage of California.
- Tateishi, John, And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984). This book, based on oral accounts of the internment experience, details the daily lives of camp residents.
- Verge, Arthur C., Paradise Transformed: Los Angeles During the Second World War (Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1993). This book, another regional study, focuses on the war’s impact on Los Angeles.
- White, Edward G., Earl Warren: A Public Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982). This insightful biography of Earl Warren covers his years as California’s governor during and after World War II.