Prepared by Linda J. Goff, Local History, Californiana and Genealogy Specialist
  and Head of Instructional Services, California State University, Sacramento Library

The CSUS Library has a close relationship to the local Japanese American community, fostered and enriched by the common interest in  preserving their history in the Sacramento and Florin areas and in our common goal of  teaching the important lessons that can be  learned from their experiences during the evacuation and relocating during World War II.  Our Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) department houses the Japanese American Archival Collections of the CSUS but there is also a tremendous amount of material in our Reference and Circulating Collections as well.  This guide should be used as a starting point.  It is intended to introduce you to  selected books and to point you in the direction of additional research.  Most books without prefixes are in our circulating collections;  those located in Reference or Special Collections cannot be checked out and are noted with a "Ref" or "Special Collections" before the call number.  Click on the call number which is linked to the record in EUREKA for status and floor location.

A brief history of Japanese Americans in California can be found on the California Office of Historic Preservation pages.  A chronology of  significant date is also available online.  Terminology note:  Japanese Americans who immigrated from Japan are called Issei, or first generation;  those who were born in the U.S. of Japanese immigrant parents are called Nisei, while their children are Sansei and their grandchildren are Yonsei.  Second generation Nisei educated in Japan are called Kibei. These four generations of Japanese Americans are collectively called Nikkei.

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FINDING ARTICLES IN THE LIBRARY:    

If you have a citation to a specific article you can check EUREKA to determine whether the journal is owned by CSUS and then find it in alphabetical order on 3 SOUTH.  If you are starting with a topic search, try one of the sample subject headings listed above.

Electronic Databases

Please note:  Off Campus access to these databases is restricted to CSUS faculty, staff and students:

America: History and Life indexes articles from over 2,000 history journals.

EBSCOHost: Academic Search indexes articles from approximately 3,000 magazines, newspapers
  and journals; some are in full text; some date back to the early 1980's. Updated daily.

Ethnic NewsWatch contains Japanese American news in full text from sources such as
  Asian Week or Northwest Nikkei.

NewsBank  Choose from 101 California newspapers online including the Sacramento Bee, Contra Costa Times, Fresno Bee, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Los Angeles Times, Modesto Bee, Santa Rosa Press Democrat.  Some date from mid 1980's, others from 2001-.

Nichi Bei Times  http://www.nichibeitimes.com/  Northern California's Oldest Japanese American daily.

Sacramento Bee for full text articles from 1986-present.

Print Indexes & Bibliographies

America: History and Life.  1964-1998  Lower Level EZ 1236 .A48 (1964-1998)

California Periodicals Index.  1978-1992  2 North Index Area PNZ 6952 .C3 C2 

Index to California Historical Society Quarterly, 1922-1961. Ref   F 856 .C24 v.1-40 Index 

Index to California Historical Quarterly : volumes forty-one to fifty-four, 1962-1974.
  Ref  F 856 .C24 v.41-54 Index 

Sacramento Bee Historical Index  1895-1935 1 South Lib Media Center (microfilm)

California Periodicals & Newspapers

Periodicals dated 1980-current are located on 3 South in alphabetical order by periodical title.
  Those dated prior to 1980 are on the lower level.  Online 

The Californians.  1983-1995

California History. 1978-current

California Historical Quarterly. 1971-1977

California Historical Society Quarterly. 1922-1970

Golden Notes. (Sacramento County Historical Society) 1954-2000

Japanese-American courier,  January 1, 1938 - April 24, 1942. [microform]
  Special Collections  F 899 .S49 J28

Sacramento Bee. 1 South Lib Media Center 1857-current (Microfilm)

Sacramento Daily Record-Union. 1 South Lib Media Center 1875-1891 (Microfilm)

Sacramento Union. 1 South Lib Media Center 1851-1906, 1968-Jan 14, 1994 (Microfilm)   
Sacramento Union.  1 South Sp Coll 1903-1991 (Paper)  Can be viewed by appointment,  278-6144.

Sacramento Observer.  1 South Lib Media Center 1973-current (Microfilm)

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FINDING BOOKS ETC. IN EUREKA - EUREKA is a catalog of items owned by the CSUS Library.  Books can be searched for in EUREKA by title, author, keyword and Library of Congress Subject Headings.  LC Subject Headings are helpful because they organize all of the books on a topic under one subject heading.  Try these searches to find many more items owned by the CSUS Library about Sacramento's Japanese Americans than can be listed in this guide:

AGRICULTURE AND BUSINESS

Changing dreams and treasured memories : a story of Japanese Americans in the Sacramento Region.  Ref & Spec Coll  F 870 J3 M28 2000 

Harvard encyclopedia of American ethnic groups.  Ref E 184 .A1 H35

Japanese American history : an A-to-Z reference from 1868 to the present. 
  Ref  E 184 .J3 J3355 1993

People of Sacramento Archives: The History of Sacramento’s Diverse Ethnic Groups
  Gov Docs Computer CA-L S325 .E3 P5x   (CD-Rom includes 1,300 images: photographs, documents, newspaper articles, & maps that are searchable by subject, ethnic community, and date.) 

Country voices:  the oral history of a Japanese American family farm community.
  F 869 D29 M37 1987

Economic basis of ethnic solidarity:  small business in the Japanese American community.
   E 184 .J3 B68

Farming the Home Place:  a Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982
   F 869 .C815 M38 1993

Japanese immigrants and American law:  the alien land laws and other issues.
  KF 4846 .J37 1994 

Japanese Legacy: farming and community life in California's Santa Clara Valley.
  Lower Level Quarto F 868 .S25 L85 1985 

Planted in good soil: the history of the Issei in United States agriculture.
 E 184 .J3 I92 1990  v.1 & 2

The Story of Japanese Farming in California.  JV 6888 .C2 A4 1971 

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BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES AND ORAL HISTORIES

And justice for all : an oral history of the Japanese American detention camps
  D 769.8 .A6 A67 1984 

Asian American autobiographers : a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook.
  Ref PS 366 .A74 A85 2001  

Distinguished Asian Americans : a biographical dictionary.  Ref  E 184 .O6 D57 1999

Strange and wonderful harvest [sound recording] : the development of a Portuguese-Japanese community in Sacramento's Freeport-Pocket District, c. 1920-1942.
  1 SOUTH Lib Media Ctr  Audio 001678  pt.1 & 2 
Ten visits : brief accounts of our visits to all ten Japanese American relocation centers of
   World War II, internee and non-internee recollections, struggle for redress, internment of
   other groups, our non-Nikkei friends, and other essays.  Ref  D 769.8 .A6 I68 1999
United States Army Military Intelligence Service (MIS) : personal accounts of Japanese
  American veterans : Oral History Project of the Japanese American Citizens League,
  Florin Chapter.   Special Collections E 184 .J3 U525 1997 
We the people : a story of internment in America.  D 769.8 .A6 T78 1988 

With only the will to live : accounts of Americans in Japanese prison camps, 1941-1945.
  D 805 .A785 W57 1994

DIRECTORIES

Sacramento Directory (Polk Directory)  Lower Level  F 869 .S12 A18  (1888-1982)

Sacramento Suburban Directory  Lower Level F 869 .S12 A185 (1957, 1959-1968, 1970-1978, 1980-1982) 

FAMILY LIFE AND COMMUNITIES

For the sake of our Japanese brethren: assimilation, nationalism and Protestantism among
  the Japanese of Los Angles, 1895-1942.   F 869 .L89 J32 1995 

Four immigrants manga:  a Japanese experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924.
   F 869 .S39 K5913 1999 

Citizens apart:  a history of the Japanese in Ventura County. 
  Special Collections   F 869 .V48 C58 1994 

Cultural assimilation:  marrying outside of the Japanese American community.
  Lower Level Thesis Y113 1983 

Growing up Nisei:  race generation, and culture among Japanese Americans of California,
  1924-49.   F 870 .J3 Y66 2000 

Historical study of the California Nisei "A" baseball championship tournaments from 1962 to
  1973.  Lower Level  Thesis T1285 1974 

Japanese Americans and cultural continuity:  maintaining language and heritage.
   LC 3173 .C3 M67 1997 

Japanese American family album .  E 184 .J3 H584 1995 

Japanese in the Monterey Bay Region: a brief history.  Special Collections   F 868 .M7 L93 1997 

Land rent strike: a case study of Japanese American community action in Walnut Grove.
  Lower Level Thesis S1579 1982 

Little Tokyo: one hundred years in pictures.  F 869 .L89 J354 1983 

Nihon bunka = Japanese culture:  one hundred years in the Pajaro Valley.
  F 868 .S3 N53 1992 

Tradition and change in three generations of Japanese Americans.   F 869 .S12 C68 

Turning Leaves:  the photograph collection of two Japanese American families.
   E 184 .J3 C47 1991

Sansei:  social interaction and ethnic identification among the third generation Japanese.
  F 869 .L89 J333 

Struggle and survival: the history of Japanese immigrant families in California, 1907-1945.
  F 870 .J3 U94 1990 

Study of changing psychological and behavioral characteristics in three generations of
  Japanese Americans in the Sacramento area.  F 869 .S12 C656 1983 

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GOVERNMENT INFORMATION, PUBLIC RECORDS AND GENEALOGY

                    Gov Docs CA-L S32        Sacramento City

                    Gov Docs CA-L S325      Sacramento County

                    Gov Docs CA-L S326      Sacramento Region

Population Schedules….  7th Census, 1850 - 14th Census, 1920.  (Contains only selected No. Calif. counties.) 
   Gov Docs Film C 3.23  (microfilm)    1930 Census is online. 

For the Record: Catalog of the Public Records, City of Sacramento 1848-1982, Sacramento
  County 1848-1982. Ref F 868 .S12 S39

Early Court Records of Sacramento County, California.  Ref KFC 969 .S12 B3

  Indexes cases in civil and criminal courts for the years 1849-1879.  

Rest in Peace : Early Records from Cemeteries in the City and County of Sacramento,
  California.  Ref F 868 .S12 B4  Includes New Helvetia Cemetery, St. Joseph's Cemetery,
  Sacramento City Cemetery and others.

Sacramento County Cemeteries  Ref F 860 .S34 1985 v.1

Sacramento Bee Newspaper Index of Births, Marriages, Deaths.
   1 SOUTH Lib Media Ctr. Microfiche 218

Marriage Affidavits, 1893-1897, Sacramento County, California. Ref F 868 .S12 B39

Marriage Affidavits,1904-1906, Sacramento County, California. Ref F 868 .S12 B394 1982

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HISTORIES AND HISTORICAL ATLASES

California Patterns: A Geographical and Historical Atlas  2 South Atlas G 1525 .H6 1983

Changing dreams and treasured memories : a story of Japanese Americans in the
  Sacramento Region.  Ref & Spec Coll  F 870 J3 M28 2000

Early California Atlas (Northern Edition) 2 North Atlas G 1526 .S1 E3 1983

Harvard encyclopedia of American ethnic groups.  Ref E 184 .A1 H35

Historical Atlas of California  2 North Atlas G 1526 .S1 B4

Japanese American history : an A-to-Z reference from 1868 to the present. 
  Ref  E 184 .J3 J3355 1993

People of Sacramento Archives: The History of Sacramento’s Diverse Ethnic Groups  
CA-L S325 .E3 P5x Gov Docs Computer.   This (CD-Rom includes 1,300
  images: photographs, documents, newspaper articles, and maps that are searchable by subject,
  ethnic community, and date.) 

RESEARCH GUIDES

Japanese American internment during World War II : a history and reference guide.
  D 769.8 .A6 N4 2002 

California Local History: A Bibliography and Union List of Library Holdings.
  Ref and Circ FZ 1261 .R63 1970 

A Bibliography of California Bibliographie.  Ref FZ 1261 .W4 

A Select Bibliographical Guide to California History, 1863-1972.  Ref  FZ 1261 .W42 

WOMEN

Issei, Nisei, war bride:  three generations of Japanese American women in domestic service.
  HD 6072.2 .U52 C24 1986 

Mothering, education and ethnicity: the transformation of Japanese American culture.
  E 184 .J3 A35 1998 

Strength and diversity;  Japanese American women, 1885-1990. 
  Curric Guides Social Science 9988 

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RELATED WEB RESOURCES - HISTORY AND CULTURE

CSUS Special Collection and Archival Resources:
Japanese American Oral Histories at CSUS  Search EUREKA for the series title "florin japanese american citizen's league oral history project"
and you will find 79 oral histories. These are cataloged and can be checked out.
Japanese American Archival Collections of the CSU, Sacramento
http://digital.lib.csus.edu/jaac/

Related CSUS Library Subject Guides:
Sacramento:  Selected Guides and Resources 
  http://library.csus.edu/guides/sturmt/sacto.htm                         
Sacramento History http://library.csus.edu/guides/sturmt/sactohistory.htm

Local Archives and Library Resources: 
Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center  (SAMCC)  http://www.sacramenities.com/history/
California State Library, http://www.lib.state. California Room
Sacramento Public Library, http://www.saclib.org/ Sacramento Room http://www.saclibrary.org/?pageId=732

Resources at Other Libraries or Archives : 
Ansel Adams' Manzanar War Relocation Center Photographs - Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/109_anse.html 
Densho Japanese American Legacy Project - Seattle Washington  http://www.densho.org/
Historic Japanese American Sites in California - 105 historic sites listed by the National Parks Service. http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/5views/5views4h.htm 
Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Records http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5j49n8kh. - U.C., Berkeley, Bancroft Library 
Japanese Historical Map Collection, http://www.davidrumsey.com/japan/ U.C. Berkeley (for Prefectures of origin)
Manzanar National Historic Site http://www.nps.gov/manz/
Photographs from Tule Lake -  http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/9066/tule.htm University of Utah Special Collections
War Relocation Authority - Truman Presidential Library and Museum 
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/japanese_internment/japan_internmentphotos.htm
U.S. National Records and Archives & Records Administration  - http://www.archives.gov/
  See:Digital Classroom; Teaching with Documents - Lesson Plans on Japanese American Relocation 
University of Arizona, Special Collections (Poston and Gila River Camps) http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/spc/homepage/index.html
Images from Topaz  http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/9066/topaz.htm University of Utah Special Collections 

Japanese American Community Resources :
Florin Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)  http://www.florinjacl.com/
Go for Broke - 442nd Regimental Combat Team  Most decorated U.S. military unit. http://www.homeofheroes.com/moh/nisei/index3_442nd.html 
How we've changed 1990-2000 - Overview article about local Japanese American Race
relations by Stephen Magagnini,  Sacramento Bee, Dec. 19, 1999.
http://www.sacbee.com/static/archive/news/projects/people_of_century/our_century/race.html
Japanese American Network -  http:/www.janet.org/ - Japanese American organizations in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.
Japanese American History Archives   http://www.amacord.com/fillmore/museum/jt/jaha/jaha.html
Japanese American National Museum  http://www.janm.org/  Los Angeles
National Japanese American Citizens League   http://www.jacl.org/  San Francisco.  Look at their 
  Education pages, especially: Lesson in American History: The Japanese American Experience 
National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS) http://www.nikkeiheritage.org/ - San Francisco
Nisei Baseball Research Project  http://www.niseibaseball.com/ - Fresno
Sacramento Buddhist Church  http://www.buddhistchurch.com/index.htm also sponsors Japanese Sakura Gakuen language school 
Sacramento Taiko Dan  http://www.sactaiko.org/  Drum group.
Dancing with the Departed - Japanese Obon in the American West Article from the World & I,  Aug. 1994, Volume 08 Page 232.  http://www.worldandi.com/public/1994/august/cl2.cfm