Japanese Canadian internment

Paper Assignment Mary was a 17-year old Japanese-American girl living in the United States with her family. She was born and raised in America and had her citizenship, but her parents did not. For all she knew all her life she thought she was just like every other Caucasian American that lived in that same country. She went to an American school, spoke fluent English, had American friends, had her citizenship and everything else that you would think she needed in order to be considered an…

This week, as we left class, Angylyne and I discussed the documentary, Precious Knowledge, all the way to the Armitage el stop where we parted ways. It was hard to believe that the education board of Arizona had such a problem with the Latin Studies Program. In high school, I took both AP US History and AP European History. In both of these courses, we learned about radical thinkers and doers and people who decided to revolt against the status quo. Both of these courses are fine for students to…

years of its signing, except the Alien Enemies Act, which remained in effect, and in 1918 was amended to include WOMEN!! They were thought to be a threat, as was any other war protestor. The Japanese Internment Camps of the 1940s brought the acts to the forefront again, as they do every so often when all Japanese Americans...yes Americans, were thought to be a threat to the war effort, and were interred in camps in the western U.S. Fast forward to the upcoming 2016 election. In an effort to…

There is a long history of discrimination and hatred towards other groups. For America, the history of discrimination started in 1492 with the discovery of America. When it comes to the discrimination of the Japanese it began when Chinese immigrants entered the country during the Gold Rush in 1849. When Chinese immigrants entered the country, acts of violence were committed against them due to the heavy competition for gold. After 1850 when California became a state, laws were created to…

station, advertisements, and the minds of German, Japanese, and American people. Propaganda in the United States had a few main themes, The nature of our allies (teamwork and a sense of brotherhood), The need to…

but she feels proud of her mother language, Chicano Spanish, because she realizes that her mother tongue is her distinctive identity. Also, she encourages her chicano friends to keep their identities. Likewise, in “To the Lady”, Mitsuye Yamada, a Japanese American poet and activist, writes to a lady in San Francisco and claims that the consequence of people not protesting when injustice…

these times needs to change with the history. For example the treatment of the Japanese and the Muslims after the terrorist attacks is seen as unfair and is questioned if it was necessary. Even though these two ethnic groups were viewed differently they had a lot of similarities to how they treated after the attacks. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, but it wasn’t until February 19th that the Japanese Americans got treated differently by the government. President Franklin…

Japanese American Internment Camps The United States throughout history had many faults in their actions and mindset against minorities. During the era of World War II, there was much distrust and tension between the counties of the Axis Powers. Because of the conflict between the countries, many people of German, Italian and Japanese heritage were treated poorly and disrespectfully at the time. Although, of the three, none were treated as poorly as the Japanese Americans were treated. Of all…

Explain the rationale for the internment of Japanese-American civilians in camps during World War II. Research and discuss the arguments in the Korematsu v. the United States case that went up through the high courts. (See the text, p. 696.) In 1941 the United States was on a slow recovery from the worst economic catastrophe in the nation’s history, The Great Depression. Additionally, European nations were once again engaged in a deadly war over expansion, power, and natural resources that…

This is seen through the slaveholders pre-civil war, the civil rights movement, and the more recent internment of Japanese Americans post WWII, where cultures of color were living lives in a way that the white community wouldn’t have had the notion of living. Elaine Kim, an award winning writer and professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California…