What Did The Internment Of Japanese Americans Mean Analysis

In “What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean?” originally published in 2000 by St. Martin’s Press, University of California’s assistant professor of history Alice Yang Murray illuminates the travesty of internment set upon Japanese Americans by the United States. Alice Yang Murray is a passionate humanitarian, historian and while her surname Yang tells us she is she is of Asian or more specifically Chinese decent she does not allow this supposed bias to detract from her factual analysis. If there is anything is to be said regarding the bias of Murray it that she has done a great deal of research to forgo it. This omitted bias is in stark contrast to the historians whom have covered the subject of internment in the past. According to Alice Yang Murray “..even as these works recount a history of strikes, riots, and mass demonstrations, they present resistance as an unfortunate product of miscommunication and misunderstanding rather than a legitimate response to incarceration”(21). Accordingly, Murray wishes to dispel the false narrative archived by historians of the past, and bring firm understanding to …show more content…
As a recount of events unraveling prior to 1942 come to show that there was very little factual evidence to support the “necessity” of interning the Japanese Americans. As stated by the author “J. Edgar Hoover Wrote...that the public hysteria was groundless”.(7) regarding the American’s response toward the Japanese Americans. The author notes that J. Edgar Hoover’s opinion was also echoed by Attorney General Francis Biddle; nevertheless, both J. Edgar Hoover and Francis Biddle’s opinions went un-publicised. The idea that these two heavily influential figures held an opposing position, and went without speaking not only expresses the tepid nature of their concern but also the shear enormity of the social issue at