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This thesis explores the experience of the German-speaking people who have immigrated to the United States of America. It relates the history of German immigration including the first trickles of immigrants, the first settlements, mass immigration to America, and immigration in …

This thesis reexamines the site of the Japanese American Incarceration Camps of World War II as a site of architectural precedent. The Camps occupy what has become a quiet chapter in the history textbook, often regarded as an eccentric aberration within American history. Yet the…

This dissertation study used an intersectionality framework to examine the experience of Japanese American women in their educational and vocational trajectories before, during, and after internment. The study explores how the vocational education program and employment opportun…

This qualitative study examined the Japanese American internment during World War II and its impact across generations. Particular attention was given to the experiences of Japanese American fathers and how they communicated with Nisei, Sansei, and Yonsei generations. The goal o…

In the 1940’s, tens of thousands of people of Japanese and German heritage throughout the western hemisphere were forcibly uprooted from their homes resulting in a traumatic separation from their families, communities, possessions, and identities. While some people were confined…

For as long as there has been war, there have been prisoners of war. Throughout history, prisoners of war have typically been enslaved, mistreated, or put to death. Only in the last few centuries have nations attempted to establish rules and protocols for the better treatment an…

From 1910 to 1945, while the Korean peninsula was a protectorate- and eventual colony- of the Empire of Japan, Koreans in the United States began an arduous process to maintain their sense of identity in a new land, and struggled to have a voice in a society that rejected their …