During my research this week, I continued to work on the assignment for Wednesday class. I have roughly completed 1500 words, so far and the focus on this section of the paper has leaned towards daily life in internment camps and providing information that supports the first part of my thesis, which is that terminology should remain the same, as internment camps not concentration camps. I have transitioned into the significance of sports and recreation (baseball and arts), to begin the support the second part of my thesis.
In addition, I have reviewed several new resources. Daniel L. Dustin article “Baseball saved us”: Recreation as refuge in a world war ii Japanese American prison camp provided the different roles of sports and recreation in the prisoner’s lives at Manzanar camp, such as how these two provided some normalcy and stability.
After reading Citizen 13660, I came across a similar book with illustrations that provided insight to the daily life within these internment camps. Camp II Block 211: Daily life in an Internment Camp by Jap Matsuoka. I also started reading different interviews in the oral history project, Regenerations: Rebuilding Japanese American Families Communities and Civil Rights in the Resettlement Era. These interviews also provided additional insight into the daily lives of internment prisoners. Finally, I checked out Farewell to Manzanar, it is the true story of a families survival in these camps, that has be compared to the Diary of Anne Frank.