Tanforan, race track to assembly center / San Mateo County Community College District.

The Tanforan Race Track was the site of a war internee assembly center in 1942, where thousands of Japanese Americans lived for as long as six months while the more permanent World War II internment camps were being built inland. The first in-depth study of an assembly center and the beginnings of n...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: San Mateo County Community College District (Production company)
CrossCurrent Media (Production company)
National Asian American Telecommunications Association (distribution company.)
Other Authors: Fukami, Dianne (Film director, Film producer)
Young, Donald, 1967- (Film producer)
Yanehiro, Jan (Narrator)
Language:English
Subjects:
Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.)
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Internment camps > California > San Mateo.
Japanese Americans > Interviews.
San Mateo (Calif.) > History.
Motion pictures in propaganda > United States.
Nazi concentration camps.
Japanese Americans.
Motion pictures in propaganda.
California > San Mateo.
United States.
1942-1945
Nonfiction films.
Historical films.
Documentary films.
History.
Interviews.
Internment camps.
Genre:
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Historical films.
Documentary films.
History.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Tanforan, from race track to assembly center
Format: Video DVD

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