The idea for our topic came from Vanessa Johnston who was brainstorming topic ideas with her aunt who suggested Japanese American Internment. Vanessa’s cousin’s grandma was born in a Japanese Internment Camp during WWII. From that suggestion, our group decided to choose that as our topic because we knew we’d have good sources and wanted to learn more about it.
In addition to multiple books, online databases, and websites, we had incredible personal interviews. Our group was able to interview internees from the Japanese Internment Camps. These interviews were the heart and soul of our project. Without personal stories, we would not have had such a wide variety of insight and information.
Our understanding of the topic grew in both breadth and depth through our research. We learned the causes of the camps and the reason they were established. Our perspective changed on our topic because of our research. Prior to this project, we felt as though Japanese American Internment was not represented as a critical part of our national history, when in reality, for Japanese Americans who lived through the Internment Camps, it was one of the worst experiences of their lives.
In order to put our project together, we learned how to sift through resources to find credible ones, create interview questions, conduct interviews, and create a website. We chose to do a website because we felt that was the best way to collaborate with one another and to produce an informative and affecting project. Conducting the interviews was the most difficult part of this process. It was challenging to gain the trust of interviewees, enabling them to share their personal stories of such a difficult time of their and their families' lives.
Japanese American Internment was the key reaction to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in WWII. If there had been no war, there would not have been Internment Camps. Japanese American Internment was also a revolution because the United States government had never interned a group of people before based on their race. A key result of Japanese American Internment was an ongoing Japanese and American hostility towards each other, which was also a crucial consequence.
Our topic is important because it’s something that’s not talked about, but yet affected so many people living in the United States. Japanese American Internment is often overlooked as a critical part in our history but created hostility and fear in Japanese Americans during WWII. Those that we were fortunate enough to interview shared that among Japanese Americans remnants of the emotional pain and fear remain.
In addition to multiple books, online databases, and websites, we had incredible personal interviews. Our group was able to interview internees from the Japanese Internment Camps. These interviews were the heart and soul of our project. Without personal stories, we would not have had such a wide variety of insight and information.
Our understanding of the topic grew in both breadth and depth through our research. We learned the causes of the camps and the reason they were established. Our perspective changed on our topic because of our research. Prior to this project, we felt as though Japanese American Internment was not represented as a critical part of our national history, when in reality, for Japanese Americans who lived through the Internment Camps, it was one of the worst experiences of their lives.
In order to put our project together, we learned how to sift through resources to find credible ones, create interview questions, conduct interviews, and create a website. We chose to do a website because we felt that was the best way to collaborate with one another and to produce an informative and affecting project. Conducting the interviews was the most difficult part of this process. It was challenging to gain the trust of interviewees, enabling them to share their personal stories of such a difficult time of their and their families' lives.
Japanese American Internment was the key reaction to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in WWII. If there had been no war, there would not have been Internment Camps. Japanese American Internment was also a revolution because the United States government had never interned a group of people before based on their race. A key result of Japanese American Internment was an ongoing Japanese and American hostility towards each other, which was also a crucial consequence.
Our topic is important because it’s something that’s not talked about, but yet affected so many people living in the United States. Japanese American Internment is often overlooked as a critical part in our history but created hostility and fear in Japanese Americans during WWII. Those that we were fortunate enough to interview shared that among Japanese Americans remnants of the emotional pain and fear remain.