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Episode 1- “Chasing Normalcy: Relationship Dynamics in WWII Japanese-American Internment Camps” with Chelsea Kiefer

“Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. A view at a dance given at camp #2 to celebrate the Harvest Festival, which was held at this camp on Thanksgiving day.”
WWII: Japanese-American Internment by Francis Stewart, 1942 (NARA)

In our first episode of Victor E. History, sophomore Chelsea Kiefer discusses her research on life in the Japanese-American internment camps and how that experience changed relationship dynamics.

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Buzzsprout, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Selected Bibliography:

Gruenewald, Mary Matsuda. Looking like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps. Troutdale, OR: NewSage Press, 2010.

Lange, Dorothea, Linda Gordon, and Gary Y. Okihiro. Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008.

Oppenheim, Joanne. Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration during World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference. New York: Scholastic Nonfiction, 2006.

https://www.densho.org/searching-for-lgbt-stories-in-japanese-american-incarceration-history/.

https://www.densho.org/sexual-violence-silence-japanese-american-incarceration.

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Coming January 2022

Coming soon- Victor E. History Podcast, a production of the Fort Hays State University History Department in Hays, Kansas- home of Victor E. Tiger. Hosted and produced by Dr. Manamee Guha and Hollie Marquess, this podcast will feature interviews with our outstanding undergraduate and graduate students about their recent research. Check back for more details!