The year 2017 will mark the 75th anniversary when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 or EO 9066 on February 19, 1942. EO 9066 led to the mass incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans into ten racially segregated concentration camps throughout the U.S. This article discusses the educational and literary…

Discusses the work of Japanese-American writer Yoshiko Uchida, who accurately re-creates a sense of the past in her depictions of Japanese-Americans struggling to define their self-images. Examines Uchida's treatment of several sociocultural issues and themes reflected in her children's works dealing with pre-World War II and internment years. (RS)