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Akhmatova, Anna. “I hear the oriole’s always-grieving voice.” http://allpoetry.com/poem/8507159-I_Hear_The_Orioles_Always-Griev_wbr_ing_Voice-by-Anna_Akhmatova

"Allegiance ---- A New American Musical" http://www.nctimes.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/theatre/theater-review-allegiance-is-moving-thought-provoking-story-of-patriotism/article_0ae3837f-ed7a-558c-ae56-216a119f339e.html

Allegiance at the Old Globe Theatre http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=DfSqpOpkw58&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DDfSqpOpkw58

Ansel Adams Gallery http://www.nps.gov/manz/photosmultimedia/Ansel-Adams-Gallery-Gallery.htm

Ansel Adams. "Photographs of Japanese American Internment at Manzanar." American Memory, Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/

Ansen, David. “History a la Hollywood.” Newsweek 14 January 1991: 54.

The Archives Library Information Center: Japanese Relocation and Internment During World War II http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/japanese-internment.html

Armor, John, and Peter Wright. Manzanar: Photographs by Ansel Adams. New York: Times Books, 1989.

Armstrong, Douglas. “Wartime Japanese-American Injustice Plumbed in ‘Come See the Paradise.’” Milwaukee Journal 3 February 1991.

Arnold, William. “‘Paradise’ May Have a Few Flaws But Overall It’s a Heavenly Film.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer 11 January 1991.

Baltake, Joe. "Love Story Weakens Heartfelt Pulse of Pain in 'Paradise.'" Sacramento Bee 1 February 1991.

Baltake, Joe. “A New Breed of Hero: Costner, Williams, Quaid Redefine Masculinity On Screen.” Sacramento Bee 20 January 1991.

Baron, David. “‘Paradise’ Paints Troubled Era With Masterful Strokes.” Times-Picayune 12 April 1991.

Beyond Barbed Wire. Dir. Steve Rosen. Perf. Noriyuki "Pat" Morita. VCI Video, 1997.

Blank, Ed. “It’s Almost ‘Paradise,’ But Not Quite.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 19 April 1991.

Brooks, Roy L. When Sorry Isn't Enough -- The Controversy over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice. New York: New York UP, 1999.

Chappell, Virginia A. "'But Isn't This the Land of the Free?': Resistance and Discovery in Student Responses to Farewell to Manzanar. Ed. Carol Severino, et al. Writing in Multicultural Settings. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1997. 172-88.

Chen, Fu-jen and Su-lin Yu. "Reclaiming the Southwest: A Traumatic Space in the Japanese American Internment Narrative." Journal of the Southwest 47.4 (2005): 551-70.

Children of the Camps. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/index.html

Children of the Camps: The Japanese American WWII Internment Camp Experience. Dir. Satsuki Ina. PBS, 2001.

Children of the Camps. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html

Claiborn, Lindsay. "Sen. McCain lashes out at Zero Dark Thirty." Reuters USA 21 December 2012. http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/12/21/sen-mccain-lashes-out-at-zero-dark-thirt?videoId=240081965

Clara Breed Collection. http://www.janm.org/collections/clara-breed-collection/

Clark, Mike. “‘Paradise Lost on the Premises.” USA Today 21 December 1990.

Clem Albers Gallery Gallery http://www.nps.gov/manz/photosmultimedia/Clem-Albers-Gallery-Gallery.htm

Colasurdo, Luke. "The Internment of Japanese Americans as reported by Seattle Area Newspapers." The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project, 2005. http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/news_colasurdo.htm

“Come See the Paradise.” Variety Movie Reviews 1 (1990): 27.

“Come See the Paradise.” Time 7 January 1991. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2030389,00.html

Cosford, Bill. “‘Paradise’ Splendid to Watch, Period Piece Sappy At Times But Powerful.” Miami Herald 25 January 1991.

Daniels, Roger. Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850. Seattle: U of Washington P, 1988.

Daniels, Roger. Concentration Camps U.S.A: Japanese Americans and World War II. Hinsdale: Dryden Press, 1971.

Daniels, Roger. Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

Daniels, Roger. The Decision to Relocate the Japanese Americans. New York: Lippincott, 1975.

Davis, Rocío G. "National and Ethnic Affiliation in Internment Autobiographies of Childhood by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and George Takei." Amerikastudien/American Studies 51.3 (2006): 355-68.

Dawes, Amy. “Come See the Paradise.” Variety 16 May 1990: 21.

Days of Waiting: The Life and Art of Estelle Ishigo. Dir. Steven Okazaki. San Francisco: Distributed by NAATA/Crosscurrent Media, 2005, 1988.

Dempster, Brian Komei, ed. From Our Side of the Fence: Growing Up in America's Concentration Camps. San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop, 2001.

Denerstein, Robert. “British Director Blows Chance in ‘Come See the Paradise.’” Scripps Howard News Service 23 January 1991.

Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project. http://www.densho.org/

Dorothea Lange Gallery http://www.nps.gov/manz/photosmultimedia/dorothea-lange-gallery.htm

Drummond, William. “‘Come See the Paradise’ About WWII Japanese Camps.” National Public Radio Morning Edition 21 January 1991.

Dusselier, Jane E. Artifacts of Loss: Crafting Survival in Japanese American Concentration Camps. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2008.

Earl, Phillip I. "Nevada's Miscegenation Laws and the Marriage of Mr. & Mrs. Harry Bridges." Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 37.1 (1994): 1-17.

Ebert, Roger. "‘Paradise' Examines the Value of Freedom." Chicago Sun Times 18 January 1991. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19910118/REVIEWS/101180301/1023

Elliott, David. “After a Promising Beginning, ‘Paradise’ Bogs Down.” San Diego Union 1 February 1991.

Falk, Quentin. "Alan Parker." Film Reference. http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Mi-Pe/Parker-Alan.html

A Family Gathering. Dir. Lise Yasui, Ann Tegnell. PBS Video, 1989.

Feng, Peter. Screening Asian Americans. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2002.

Fine, Marshall. “Parker’s Reminders are Painful.” USA Today 24 December 1990.

Francis Stewart Gallery http://www.nps.gov/manz/photosmultimedia/francis-stewart-gallery.htm

Frankel, Sara. "American Lesson, British Eyes: 'Paradise' Director Alan Parker Attacks U.S. Social Problems Through Love Story." San Francisco Examiner 23 December 1990.

Froelich, Janis. “This Is ‘Paradise?’” St. Petersburg Times 24 May 1991.

Fugita, Stephen, and Marilyn Fernandez. Altered Lives, Enduring Community: Japanese Americans Remember Their World War II Incarceration. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2004.

Garner, Jack. “A Flawed But Emotional Blockbuster About a Wart on U.S. History.” USA Today 22 January 1991.

George Takei -- Legendary Actor and Political Activist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v0MXhx6564&feature=youtu.be

Glieberman, Owen. Rev. of Come See the Paradise, dir. Alan Parker. Entertainment Weekly 11 January 1991. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,312955,00.html

Gordon, Linda, and Gary Y. Okihiro, eds. Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.

Grapes, Bryan J. Japanese American Internment Camps. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2001.

Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel. New York: Vintage, 1995.

Guthmann, Edward. “Parker’s on History Trail: Director Re-creates World War II Tragedy of Internment Camps.” San Francisco Chronicle 20 December 1990.

Haberstroh, Joe. “Japanese-Americans Want ‘Paradise’ Seen; Flawed Film Affirms Internment, Many Say.” San Diego Union 27 January 1991.

Hagen, Bill. “Director Lost ‘Paradise.’” (San Diego) Evening Tribune 31 January 1991.

Hanson, Arthur A., ed. Japanese American World War II Evacuation Oral History Project Part I: Internees. Westport: Meckler Publishing, 1991.

Hanson, Arthur A., ed. Japanese American World War II Evacuation Oral History Project Part II: Administrators. Westport: Meckler Publishing, 1991.

Harth Erica, ed. Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Hartl, John. “A Passionless ‘Paradise.’” Seattle Times 11 January 1991.

Hatamiya, Leslie T. Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1993.

History and Memory for Akiko and Takashige. Dir. Rea Tajiri. Electronic Arts Intermix, St. Paul: KTCA, 1993, 1991.

Honouliuli Special Resource Study http://www.nps.gov/pwro/honouliuli/

Horn, John. “‘Paradise’ Found.” (Long Beach CA) Press-Telegram 4 January 1991.

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki. Farewell to Manzanar. New York: Random House, 1972.

Houston, John and Jeanne Wakatsuki. "No More Farewells: An Interview with Jeanne and John Houston." By Anthony Friedson. Biography 7.1 (1984): 50-73.

Hyun-Yi Kang, Laura. "The Desiring of Female Bodies: Interracial Romance and Cinematic Subjection." Screening Asian Americans. Ed. Peter X. Feng. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2002. 71-98.

Ichioka, Yuji. Before Internment. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2006.

Ichioka, Yuji. The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants 1885-1924. New York: The Free Press, 1988.

Irons, Peter H. Justice at War. New York: Oxford UP, 1983.

James, Caryn. “Review/film: When a Population Was Victimized at Home.” New York Times 23 December 1990: 42.

The Japanese American Archival Collection of California State University, Sacramento http://library.csus.edu/collections/jaac/

Japanese American National Museum http://www.janm.org

Japanese American National Museum: Japanese American Incarceration Facts http://www.janm.org/nrc/resources/internfs/

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives http://jarda.cdlib.org

Japanese-American Internment http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/japanese_internment/internment_menu.cfm

Kang, Laura Hyun-Yi. "The Desiring of Asian Female Bodies: Interracial Romance and Cinematic Subjection." Screening Asian Americans. Ed. Peter X. Feng. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2002. 71-98.

Kashima, Tetsuden. Judgment Without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2003.

Kempley, Rita. "Come See the Paradise." Washington Post 18 January 1991. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/comeseetheparadiserkempley_a0a0d0.htm

King, Dennis. “Come See the Paradise.” Tulsa World 24 March 1991.

Kitagawa, Daisuke. Issei and Nisei: The Internment Years. New York: Seabury Press, 1967.

Klinghoffer, David. “‘Paradise’ Lost in Limp Drama on Internment.” Washington Times 18 January 1991

Lawson, Fusao Inada, ed. Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience.

Leighton, Alexander H., Lt. Comdr., Medical Corps, USNR. The Governing of Men: General Principles and Recommendations Based on Experience at a Japanese Relocation Camp. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1946.

List of Detention Camps, Temporary Detention Centers, and Department of Justice Internment Camps from the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund Network http://www.momomedia.com/CLPEF/camps.html

Lyman, David. “Poorly Told Tale Waters Down ‘Paradise’ Drama.” Cincinnati Post 2 March 1991.

MacCambridge, Michael. “‘Paradise’ Is Hardly Heaven.” Austin American-Statesman 8 March 1991.

Manzanar. Dir. Robert A.Nakamura. San Francisco: Distributed by NAATA, 1971-1990

Manzanar National Historic Site - National Park Service http://www.nps.gov/manz/index.htm

Matthews, Tom. “Come See the Paradise.” Boxoffice December 1990: 42-43.

Millar, Jeff. “‘Come See the Paradise’ -- Topical Tale Depicts Period of Shame in American History.” Houston Chronicle 1 February 1991.

Mills, Michael. “Paradise is Manipulative, Full of Cliches.” Palm Beach Post 25 January 1991.

Miyakawa, Edward T. Tule Lake. Trafford Publishing, 2006.

Miyamoto, S. Frank, and O’Brien, Robert W. “A Survey of Some Changes in the Seattle Japanese Community Since Evacuation.” Research Studies of the State College of Washington 15 (1947): 147-54.

Modell, John. “Class or Ethnic Solidarity: The Japanese American Company Union.” Pacific Historical Review 38 (1969): 192-206.

Mooney, Joshua. “‘Come See the Paradise’ Looks at Heated Race Issues.” Fort Worth Star-Telegram 28 June 1991.

A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans & the U.S. Constitution (from the Smithsonian) http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/index.html

Movshovitz, Howie. “‘Come See the Paradise’ Travels Dull, Didactic Path.” Denver Post 18 January 1991.

Muller, Eric L., ed. Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2012.

Murata, Kiyoaki. An Enemy Among Friends. New York: Kodansha International, 1991.

Murray, Alice Yang. Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2008.

Murray, Alice Yang. What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.

Nagata, Donna K. Legacy of Injustice: Exploring the Cross-generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment. New York: Plenum Press, 1993.

Ng, Wendy L. Japanese American Internment during World War II: A History and Reference Guide. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002.

Nhu, T.T. “A Four-Hankie Weeper About Internment.” San Jose Mercury News 18 January 1991.

Novak, Ralph. “Picks and Pans Review: Come See the Paradise.” People 28 January 1991. http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20114289,00.html

Okada, John. No-No Boy. Seattle: U of Washington P, 1977.

Okamura, Raymond. "Farewell to Manzanar: A Case of Subliminal Racism." Amerasia Journal 3.2 (1976): 143-48. Reprinted: Counterpoint: Perspectives on Asian America. Ed. Emma Gee. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1976. 280-83.

Ono, Kent A. "The Biracial Subject as Passive Receptacle for Japanese American Memory in Come See the Paradise." Mixed Race Hollywood. Eds. Mary Beltrán and Camilla Fojas. New York: New York UP, 2008. 136-54.

Orme, Terry. “Parker’s ‘Come See the Paradise’ Reveals Nation’s Hypocrisy.” Salt Lake Tribune 18 January 1991.

Osborne, Robert. “Troubled Love in ‘Paradise.’” (Long Beach CA) Press-Telegram 23 December 1990.

Otsuka, Julie. When the Emperor was Divine: A Novel. New York: Anchor Books, 2003.

Paris, Michael. "'What Happened Was Wrong': Come See the Paradise and the Japanese-American Experience in the Second World War." Repicturing the Second World War: Representations on Film and Television. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 105-18.

Parker, Alan. Interview by William Drummond. “‘Come See the Paradise’ About WWII Japanese Camps.” National Public Radio Morning Edition 21 January 1991.

Payne, Robert. "Come See the Paradise: The Color of Paradise." Jump Cut 37 (July 1992): 51-55. http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC37folder/ComeSeeParadise.html

A Personal Matter: Gordon Hirabayashi versus the United States. San Francisco: CrossCurrent Media: National Asian American Telecommunications Association, 1992.

Pollack, Joe. “Horror of War At Home For Internees: ‘Come See the Paradise.’” St. Louis Post-Dispatch 19 January 1991.

Polunsky, Bob. “‘Come See the Paradise’ Only a Historical Footnote.” San Antonio Express-News 8 March 1991.

Rickey, Carrie. “Love and Internment for Japanese Americans.” Philadelphia Inquirer 21 January 1991.

Ringel, Eleanor. “Film Review.” Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution 1 February 1991.

Robinson, Greg. "What I Did in Camp: Interpreting Japanese American Internment Narratives of Isamu Noguchi, Miné Okubo, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, and John Tateishi." Amerasia Journal 30.2 (2004): 49-

Robinson, Greg. A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America. New York: Columbia UP, 2009.

Robinson, Greg. By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2001

Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Russell, Candice. “Drama About Japanese Internment Unfocused: ‘Come See the Paradise.’” Sun Sentinel 25 January 1991.

Sakurai, Patricia A. "The Politics of Possession: Negotiating Identities in American in Disguise, Homebase, and Farewell to Manzanar." Hitting Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism 1.1 (1953): 39-56. Reprinted: Privileging Positions: The Sites of Asian American Studies. Ed. Gary Y. Okihiro et al. Pullman: Washington State UP, 1995. 157-70.

Seidenberg, Robert. “‘Paradise’ All Too Real For Tomita.” (Long Beach, CA) Press-Telegram 27 January 1991.

Simon, Jeff. “‘Paradise’ Becomes Tiresome After a While.” Buffalo News 26 January 1991.

Skinner, M. Scot. “Weak, Contrived ‘Paradise’ Misses Golden Opportunity.” Arizona Daily Star 29 January 1991.

Sone, Monica Itoi. Nisei Daughter. Seattle: U of Washington P, 1979.

Sone, Monica. Nisei Daughter. 1953. Seattle: U of Washington P, 1979.

Stewart, Todd. Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2008.

Stone, Judy. “‘Paradise’ a Lost Cause: Alan Parker’s Look at Internment of Japanese Americans.” San Francisco Chronicle 22 December 1990.

Strauss, Bob. “Parker Again Draws Color Line.” Daily News of Los Angeles 23 December 1990.

Strickler, Jeff. “Syrupy Melodrama Kisses Off a Tragic Wartime Internment.” Star Tribune 25 January 1991.

Tajima, Renée, ed. The Anthology of Asian Pacific American Film and Video. New York: Film News Now Foundation, 1985.

Takei, George. To the Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei, Star Trek's Mr. Sulu. New York: Pocket Books, 1994.

Takeuchi, Floyd K. "Two-Edged Sword for Asian Actors." USA Today 13 June 1991.

Tateishi, John. And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps. New York: Random House, 1984.

Tawa, Renee. “Quest for Perfection in ‘Paradise’ -- ‘Mississippi’ Left Parker Burning for Authenticity.” Daily News of Los Angeles 26 December 1990.

Thompson, Gary. “Internees Story Lost in ‘Paradise.’” Philadelphia Daily News 18 January 1991.

Turnquist, Kristi. “Plight of Internment Trivialized.” Oregonian 12 January 1991.

Uchida, Yoshiko. Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family. Seattle: U of Washington P, 1982.

Unfinished Business: The Japanese-American Internment Cases. Dir. Steven Okazaki. Farallon Films, 1984.

Utah Education Network: Liberty http://www.uen.org/themepark/liberty/japanese.shtml

Vadeboncoeur, Joan E. “‘Paradise’ Sacrifices Storyline.” Syracuse Herald-Journal 21 January, 1991.

The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco: Internment of San Francisco Japanese http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html

Walker, J. Samuel. Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of the Atomic Bombs Against Japan. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1997.

Weglyn, Michi. Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1976.

Wilmington, Michael. “Parker’s Inconsistencies Confine ‘Paradise.’” New Haven Register 25 January 1991.

Wiseman, Andreas. "US Senators criticise 'grossly inaccurate' Zero Dark Thirty." Screen Daily 20 December 2012. http://www.screendaily.com/news/production/us-senators-criticise-grossly-inaccurate-zero-dark-thirty/5050174.article

Wong, Sau-ling Cynthia, and Stephen H. Sumida. A Resource Guide to Asian American Literature. New York: Modern Language Association of America; 2001.

World War II Internment in Hawai’i: An online resource for students and instructors http://www.hawaiiinternment.org

Yamamoto, Hisaye. Seventeen Syllables. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1994.

Yollin, Patricia. "Photos illustrate effects of WWII internment camps." SFGate 12 May 2012. http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Photos-illustrate-effects-of-WWII-internment-camps-3552117.php#photo-2868242