Japanese American collection
Collection Scope and Contents
This collection primarily contains transcripts, audio cassettes, and other material pertaining to the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) Executive Order 9066 Project. Also includes material pertaining to Japanese American art, entertainment, and culture as well as Japanese American life in Riverside, California and the Inland Empire. The transcripts in Series 1 include notes identifying which "assembly centers" and/or concentration camps are discussed in the interviews.
Terminology used in this finding aid referring to the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II is drawn from the community created guidelines for description. See https://densho.org/ for further reading on the topic.
Dates
- Creation: 1905-2006, undated
Languages
The collection is primarily in English with a handful of items in Japanese.
Access
This collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright Unknown: Some materials in these collections may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction, and/or commercial use, of some materials may be restricted by gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing agreement(s), and/or trademark rights. Distribution or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. To the extent other restrictions apply, permission for distribution or reproduction from the applicable rights holder is also required. Responsibility for obtaining permissions, and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Extent
1.67 Linear Feet (2 boxes, 5 flat file folders)
Abstract
This collection primarily contains transcripts, audio cassettes, and other material pertaining to the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) EO 9066 Project. Also includes material pertaining to Japanese American life in Riverside, California and the Inland Empire.
Acquisition Information
Provenance unknown
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Art and music
- Gila River Concentration Camp
- Granada (aka Amache) Concentration Camp
- Heart Mountain concentration camp
- Japanese Americans
- Japanese Americans -- Exclusion and incarceration, 1942-1945
- Jerome Concentration Camp
- Manzanar concentration camp
- Poston Concentration Camp
- Rohwer Concentration Camp
- Santa Anita assembly center
- Theater
- Topaz Concentration Camp
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans
- Title
- Japanese American collection
- Status
- Processed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Special Collections Processing Archivist Andrew Lippert
- Date
- 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English
Repository Details
Part of the Manuscript Collections Repository
University of California
Rivera Library
P.O. Box 5900
Riverside 92517-5900 USA
specialcollections@ucr.edu