Building Empathy is a project of PEF and PUSD, with support from the California State Library and California Humanities
Resources, Further Reading
These books include books that were read by students in the classroom, as well as other materials that were used in curriculum and professional development.
Textbooks
Only What We Could Carry
(2014, anthology)
by Lawson Fusao Inada, Patricia Wakida, and William Hohri
Displacement
(2020, young adult)
by Kiku Hughes
Nos llamaron Enemigo
(2020, history)
by George Takei
translated from They Called Us Enemy (2019)
We Hereby Refuse
(2014, history)
by Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura
Navigating With(out) Instruments
(2022, poetry)
by Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Further Reading
Clark and Division
(2022, novel)
by Naomi Hirahara
No-No Boy
(1957, novel)
by John Okada
Black Eggs
(1994, poetry)
by Sadako Kurihara
Sutra and Bible
(2022, history)
by Eds Ryuken Williams and Emily Anderson
Desert Exile
(1982, novel)
by Yoshiko Uchida
Citizen 13660
(1983, novel)
by Miné Okubo
The Shifting Grounds of Race
(2007, history)
by Scott Kurashige
Menace to Empire
(2023, history)
by Moon-Ho Jung
Coolies and Cane
(2008, history)
by Moon-Ho Jung
Nisei Daughter
(1953, memoir)
by Monica Sone
Years of Infamy
(1996, history)
by Michu Weglin
The Swimmers
(2022, fiction)
by Julie Otsuka
“Forced to live in horse stalls. How one of America’s worst injustices played out at Santa Anita” by Darrell Kunitomi (Los Angeles Times, 2023)
Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066 – Lesson Plans (Japanese American National Museum)
Memories of the Future: The Poetry of Sadako Kurihara and Miromu Morishita (commentary by Edward A. Dougherty)
Timeline of Events for Japanese Internment Camps (part of a lesson plan from the National Endowment for the Humanities)
Timeline: The Road to Hiroshima (National Public Radio)
Page Header Photo: Students listening to community organizer Kristin Fukushima (Managing Director, Little Tokyo Community Council) outside the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.
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What we hear!
“We had the opportunity to read a graphic novel, Displacement. The kids loved it. Kids tend to glaze over a lot of words, so to be able to see pictures and some of the situations in Displacement was cool. I read the book with the kids as well. It was like a foreshadowing of the story where this young lady was going from her modern times with her mom back into the past where her grandmother and family were in an internment camp. She was experiencing the same thing that they had gone through. The kids could see that and relate to it.”
—Ms. Devette Johnson / Graphic Design, Marshall Fundamental
