Kozol: The US government’s gaze creates a visual understanding of Executive Order 9066 and its impact on Japanese American’s that is little more than propaganda.

Howard: This chapter emphasized how internment affected notions of the family, gender roles and sexuality; most notably internment opened employment opportunities for women.

Creef: Professor Creef uses the photographs of Ansel Adams, Dorthea Lange, and Toyo Miyatake in order explain that the twentienth-century history of Japanese American representation, the mass relocation and internment of 120,000 people are defining when discussing the colonization of bodies and is yet to be resolved.

. The reading of Howard’s piece helped conceptualize the series of horrific events cast upon Japanese Americans during World War II. It was especially helpful because as Creef states this history is not taught. She even says that only two American historical events have become virtually invisible. These events are the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and Reconstruction in American South. This is interesting because while it might have been more difficult to create documentary photography images after the Civil War, but the government had no viable excuse during the 1940s. Each of these authors claimed that the history has been lost due to the censorship of the government. Unfortunately, I am not sure if the images in question, depicting the horrors of internments camps even exist, I would not be surprised if the government made efforts to destroy them. The thought that this sort of dehumanizing activity was happen in the United States, so recently is baffling as the country is seen as land of opportunity for those who voluntary immigrated here.