Nagata, D.K., & Cheng, W.J. (2003). Intergenerational Communication of Race-Related Trauma by Japanese American Former Internees. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 73, 266- 278.

Abstract

The present study investigated the intergenerational communications between Japanese Americans who were unjustly ordered into U.S. concentration camps during World War II and their offspring born after the war. Survey data were collected from 450 2nd-generation (Nisei) Japanese American former internees to assess patterns of communication with their children about the internment. The study and its results are discussed in relation to racial socialization and the influence of ethnicity on reactions to traumatic stress. (APA PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)