Nisei

During World War II, when Japan was in war with America, Japanese Americans were virtually viewed under the perpetual stranger myth, the idea that Asian Americans were regarded as immigrants despite whether they were second generation Asian Americans, Nisei, or had a long history of ancestors who’ve lived in America. They were placed in internment camps, where the treatment between Buddhists and Christians were clearly disparate based on the function of their religion, which correlated with how…

Another minority little spoken of in its service during World War II are Native American women, who indeed contributed to the war effort while also making great strides in their social transformation. Grace Mary Gouveia examines this period of time in history in the article ""We Also Serve": American Indian Women's Role in World War II,” with sources such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs publications as well as Indian school journals. The thesis of this article, that Native American women “took…

Authority (WRA) was created by Executive Order 9066. The WRA generated ten permanent camps that would relocate Japanese Americans and alien residents to camps that would be their prisons until March 1946. The Japanese Americans that were affected were Nisei, Issei, and Kibei. Because of the attack on Pearl Harbor, many Americans believed that anyone with Japanese ancestry was dangerous. Although they were American citizens and should have been protected under the Constitution, they were not. The…

nonsense characters like that of Homer Simpson, whose stamp came out in 2009. Even Congressman Mike Honda joined the critics when he stated, “I question the direction USPS is headed when it pays homage to Homer Simpson over the sacrifice of our venerable Nisei veterans.” I therefore am approaching this assignment objectively, considering not only Malcolm X’s entire life but the process of selection for USPS Stamps and prior…

there was a lot of discrimination against the Japanese because the Whites thought the Japanese were taking up all the jobs and therefore no one else could get any jobs. Policemen would arrest Japanese men on weak charges and with no proof, as seen in Nisei Daughter when Sone’s father was arrested on charges of selling liquor even when they could find no proof other than one person who claimed he bought liquor from him (Sone, 36). The resentment towards the Japanese Americans was so great that…

A most plain example of subversiveness shown in No-no Boy is at the very start of the story; Ichiro unexpectedly runs into a pre-war friend named Eto. Eto is an Issei, and therefore a generation older than Ichiro, who is a Nisei. When Eto is speaking with Ichiro, he becomes angry after learning that Ichiro did not serve in the war like he did and starts to declare some pretty nasty words. Eto also spits on Ichiro and this harsh action demonstrated by Eto is explained in author…

For this assignment, I decided to visit the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) located in the city of Los Angeles next to the Japanese Village Plaza. I choose the JANM because my interviewee is Japanese and the museum may help me understand more about the Japanese’s culture than just researching about their culture online. The JANM is an important landmark to the Japanese community because it serves to educate the population, provide entertainment, and expose about the Japanese culture to…

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japans were discriminated against and sent away to internment camps. They wanted Americans to treat them equally, and they wanted to prove their loyalty to the country. "We feel we represent majority Nisei sentiment when we say that whatever we do, we do in absolute loyalty to the United States. There are not so much words. We see our objective clearly- Defeat Japan!" (Inada, 20) Japanese-Americans were loyal to America, and they had nothing to with…

Pearl Harbor (or “Wai Momi” as it was referred to by the Hawaiians) was a naval base and the headquarter of the United States’ Pacific Fleet. Pearl Harbor was set in Oahu, Hawaii. On December 7th, 1941, the Japanese surprise attacked Pearl Harbor. The attacked lasted around 2 hours and about 2,000 Americans died while approximately another 1,000 were wounded. Only 55 Japanese soldiers died. The attack was set at an early time because the Japanese were hoping to catch the American soldiers…

“Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them… It has no place in our national discourse.”⁠13 Benjamin Todd Jealous former president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People shared his distain for racial profiling. Race, nationality, gender, age, and social status are just five of the many criteria used when categorizing others into groups. But unfortunately out of all these the far…