The Japanese American community remained divided among three perspectives regarding seeking redress. The first wanted to let the issue go. They recognized that Japanese Americans had come a long way since WWII and were no longer viewed as the enemy of the nation. Many had established stable lives...
How Did This Happen Here?: Japanese Internment CampsLeni Donlan
WWII Japanese American internment camps. WWII U.S. 442nd Infantry Regiment. The 1982 Murder of Vincent Chin. Make friends with AAPI members to understand their cultures, achievements and struggles. Attend your local AAPI community organizations and festivals. Donate to Asian American Legal Def...
most Germans came to America to pursue an agricultural lifestyle as their American dreams rather than swarm into cities, many of them dreaming of cultivating on their own farms as many letters sent back to German hometowns talking about the boundless ...
suspicion of Japanese Americans led to internment camps, unsubstantiated paranoia about German spies led to discrimination against Jewish-German immigrants. The authors point out that a Gallup poll conducted in June 1940 revealed that 71% of respondents believed the Nazis had already established a ...
Then someone discovered the internet (probably the same person who didn’t know “otaku” was a nasty slur in Japanese) and decided to relabel them as “cosplay.” But they didn’t change anything. Only now North American fans don’t understand where “cosplay” came from (hint: It’s ...
The military also forced some Hawaiians to dig bomb shelters, and sent about 2,000 Japanese-heritage civilians to Japanese internment camps. In October 1944, the government finally deemed the threat of attack in Hawaii unlikely, thus ending martial law. Two years later, the Supreme...
Put simply, one would never suggest that Japanese-Americans "benefited" when President Franklin D. Roosevelt forced them into internment camps during World War II, so what would provoke someone to make the same claim for Black Americans and slavery? As a great-grandson of a sharecropper, I ...
On 20 April 2020, Japanese manga artist Tomomi Shimizu drew cartoons telling a story of "persecution" from the perspective of Sayragul Sauytbay, picturing her as the "survivor of re-education camp". (2) Reality check In April 2016, Sayragul Sauytbay was appointed head of the Central Kinderg...
Edgar Hoover that in case of “a state of national emergency” internment camps should be opened — or rather, reopened, for these were the same camps that between 1942 and 1946 held almost 120,000 Japanese-American citizens. This time, they would house 11,000 radicals — what the FBI ...