...From the years of 1910-1970, Japanese Americans became thriving members of society despite the discrimination and social issues caused by World War II. The Japanese were highly superior in agriculture, contributed to the American market and even volunteered in World War II. The Japanese even volunteered in World War II for a country that didn't even accept them. Japanese Americans have made significant contributions to the agriculture of the United States,especially in the west. Japanese immigrants introduced farming techniques that enabled the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, and flowers on previously marginal lands. While the Issei, 1st generation Japanese Americans, survived and thrived in the early 20th century, most lost their farms during the internment during World War II. Japanese American detainees irrigated and cultivated lands...
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...The internment of Japanese-Americans in the United States during World War II was a horrific act of forced relocation and confinement in camps in the inner western states of the country. Between 110,000 and 120,000 Japanese-Americans, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast were subjected to the internment. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, war hysteria and a fear of the Japanese spread across the nation. President Roosevelt worked to counter this by issuing Executive Order 9066, thereby forcibly removing all Japanese-Americans from their homes and relocating them to internment camps outside of the restricted military zones. As his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt would write, “They were marked as different from other races and were not treated on an equal basis. In one part of our country, they were feared as competitors, and the rest of our country knew them so little and cared so little about them that they did not even think about the principle that we in this country believe in - that of equal rights for all human...
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...American Citizens: Racism, Discrimination, and Identity The creation of history is an ongoing process we all participate in. According to Kristine Kuramitsu, Internment and Identity in Japanese American Art, “an ethnic community is never a monolithic entity but a group that is, by definition, connected by some set of memories and experiences.” Collective memories have shaped our identity; some people protest others choose to agree with version illustrated and perceived which best defines their relative existence. However, “with this personal identification with a community subgroup comes the threat of isolation” (Kuramitsu). The more an individual begins to recognize their heritage and embrace their origin, Gayatri Spivak, “Acting Bits/Identity Talk”, Critical Inquiry would assert, “history slouches in one’s origins, ready to comfort and kill.” The consequences of history offer to narratives, peace and equality or secondly protest and pain. In America which operates on the principle of Democracy, people and citizens believe in fundamental rights as intuitively recognizable. These provisions are grounded in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. During World War II these rights were quickly destroyed. Internment camp prisoner Henry Sugimoto and War Relocation Authority photographer Dorothea Lange’s; uncensored artwork and photography lifted the veil capturing the plight and destitute existence Japanese Americans citizens endured as a result of...
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...groups in American history is common. The Native Americans lost land and liberty, Jim Crow Laws enforced “separate but equal” mandates for African American, the Chinese Exclusion Act barred Asians from immigrating to America. The greatest example of racial suppression was the unjustified internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II. The forced evacuation and internment of U.S citizen was not justified and changed the lives of people of Japanese descent. Japanese American and Japanese were moved to internment camps racism and social reasons. Throughout the history of the United States of America, there has been evidence of racism. This can be seen through slavery, treatment of Native Americans, and imprisonment of Japanese Americans in internment camps. Racism was a key factor for the Japanese...
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...The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during the World War II was a very devastating event in history. Many Americans were filled with fear and anger. They feared that those who are on American soil and has Japanese ancestry were enemies and would bring danger to the country. All these anxieties led to the decision of creating the internment camps. The Japanese American internment camps were a gratuitous act that revealed the Americans’ fear, and true feelings and thoughts about the accused enemies. One reason why the internment camps were unnecessary is that none of the Japanese-Americans had caused any troubles or disruptions in the country, yet the government still considered relocating them to a miserable and strange setting. According to the article, “Japanese-American Internment Was An Unnecessary And A Racist Act,” Henry Steele Commager, a historian, stated that “It is sobering to recall that the record does not disclose a single case of Japanese disloyalty or sabotage...
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...World War II: The Internment of Japanese-American Citizens American History 129 History 129 Professor 22 April 2005 On December 7, 1941, the United States of America suffered from an unanticipated attack on Pearl Harbor. President Franklin D. Roosevelt stated that this day would live in infamy. This attack brought forth an array of drastic changes for the lives of Japanese-American citizens that were currently living in the United States at the time. Officials in Washington became highly involved in deciphering a plan to prevent further espionage, and sabotage from happening. After the attack many Americans had strong anti-Japanese attitudes (NARA). This brought the Executive Order 9066 into full effect. Two months following the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt decided to instate the Executive Order 9066 into full effect. Executive Order 9066 was the starting point for the internment of Japanese-American citizens living inside of the United States. Officials feared that Japan had plans of further invading the homeland. Officials believed that Japanese-American citizens would side with Japan, and aid them rather than the United States. Order 9066 would bring the fear of invasion to a since of security. This order had to power to have the ability to relocate all people of the Japanese decent on the western coast to the Midwestern states, and it did exactly that. This order affected 117,000 people of Japanese descent, and two-thirds...
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...World War II was a horrific time in history. The war was mostly fought in Europe, but it affected people across the world. When thinking of the internment camps during the war, Texas probably does not come to mind, however, Texas had the largest of any of the World War II internment camps. The camp held American civilians of German, Japanese, and Italian ancestry. In Europe, concentration camps were growing rampant and innocent people were being shipped like cattle in train cars to work there or sadly be killed. Comparing and anaylzing the differing camps between Europe and Texas, reveals that they had their differences, but there were also too many similarities to the mindest against prisoners of war. Crystal City had humble beginnings early...
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...Japanese American Internment Japanese American internment was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, government officials immediately placed Hawaii under martial law and became concerned about the Japanese-Americans who lived on the West Coast of the United States. Intelligence gathered before the attack indicated that Japan was recruiting spies and had already secured a spy network there. None of the Japanese Americans had been charged with a crime against the government. Two-thirds had been born in the United States, and more than 70 percent of the people forced into camps were American citizens. Roosevelt's action was supported by Congress without a single vote against it, and was eventually upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court. Yet many scholars came to believe that this order was a "day of infamy" as far as the Constitution and civil rights were concerned. The people forced into camps were deprived of their liberty, a basic freedom of the American Constitution. In 1980, under mounting pressure from the Japanese American Citizens League and redress organizations, President Jimmy Carter opened an investigation to determine whether the need to put Japanese Americans into internment camps had been justified by the government. He appointed the Commission on Wartime Relocation...
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...This investigation will focus on the key motivations behind the internment of Japanese individuals camps after the end of World War II, and attempt to answer the question “To what extent was President Franklin D. Roosevelt responsible for Japanese internment during and after World War II?” Japanese internment was the forced removal of Japanese civilians, specifically in the Pacific Coast region, which arose when President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942 in response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, which occurred on December 7, 1941. In order to thoroughly explore this topic, the following subtopics will be considered: context of Pearl Harbor and how it had affected America’s perception of the Japanese...
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...Author name: Professors name: Subject: Date: Comparison-Contrast report on the internment concentration camps placed in United States and Germany. In World War II, the people-citizens which were not needed or just migrated to the country- were detained and confined without any trail is called an Internment concentration camp. The people were prisoners and kept in very bad and extremely harsh in conditions with no rights. The present paper is to highlight the comparison-contrast of the Internment concentration camps placed by United State and Germany to imprison their own populations. Later in 1993 in Nazi Germany ,Concentration become a major source for which Nazi can easily imposed their control and across Nazi controlled Europe between 1938 and 1945 to obtain the maximum hold. The reason to setup these camps were to eliminate any opposition to Nazi by their so called enemies-people who can threat. These people includes the communists, socialist and social democrats, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, and the so called a socials which were found in their own peoples of around 2millions in population whereas male above the age of 14, women’s and children kept in worst condition, given less water and food exposed to brutal and cruelty. They turned week and bad to continue with the deadly process. Many thousands of Jews were arrested during this period resulted bulk of the prisoners of these camps were subjected to increasingly poor conditions...
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...The internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II is a dark and often overlooked stain on America’s history. In 1942, Executive Order 9066 was signed by Roosevelt ordering the internment of all citizens of Japanese ancestry. For a war being fought against an anti-Semitic Germany, it seems ironic now that America would intern its citizens based on race too similarly to the way Germany interned its citizens based on religion. It can be difficult to understand how a nation based the principles of freedom and liberty could intern any population of people, but by taking a look at other unethical situations in United States’ history and world history, an explanation can begin to be found in the ideas of authorization, routinization,...
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...In the 1940s, Japanese Americans faced much persecution. The events of World War II created vast amounts of racism in the United States, especially toward Japanese Americans. They were forced into internment camps; they were taken away from their own lives and treated poorly there. The novel Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas envisions what it was like to live near an internment camp, and it gives a glimpse of how people viewed Japanese Americans during this time. This novel and David Guterson’s novel Snow Falling on Cedars are similar. Both novels were written within the same fifteen year time period, and they shed light on the prejudice against Japanese Americans during and after World War II. Snow Falling on Cedars is primarily an investigation...
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...Japanese Internment As the last missile drops from a Japanese plane, America is at a loss. Pearl Harbor, an infamous military base located in Hawaii, was the target for the Japanese planes to destroy. And there it happened, on December 7, 1941 a devastating turn of events that would forever be known as one of the great tragedies for the United States of America. This attack initiated an executive decision that became yet another tragedy in American history and that was to imprison all Americans that were Japanese. This directive to place all Japanese-Americans into internment camps was made under the misguided suspicion that all Japanese-Americans were a threat to the country and could be spies. Although this was a time where they were...
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...Imagine a world where you, your family, and your entire race was forced to leave everything behind and be relocated into internment camps just for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Well, that’s what happened to the American-Japanese. The Executive Order 9066 was an unnecessary and racist act because they were the targeted, but an innocent race that got punished for unjust reasons. This essay will be explaining why the use of internment camps were one-sided. Firstly, why were the Japanese the only ones to be relocated? The Germans and Italians had been a threat to America, yet they unfairly, didn’t bite the dust. In the article Point/Counterpoint;The Japanese-American Internment, in the section Japanese-American Internment Was An Unnecessary And A Racist Act, it states “No such measure was taken against German or Italian nationals.” This shows even though this order was supposed to be a war measure, it wasn’t because only the Japanese were relocated and not the other possible threats to America like the Germans or Italians. The Japanese was alone forcefully transported to the camps because of the American’s fearful thoughts on them....
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...During World War II the American government put all Japanese Americans on the west coast into internment camps. The reason they gave for this was that they were worried the Japanese Americans would act as spies or saboteurs for the Japanese government, so the government’s solution was to lock them up to prevent them from doing so. However, according to the documents the real reason for the internment of the Japanese Americans was because of their race. In Document C, an excerpt from an editorial published in 1942 in the NAACP’s official magazine, they talk about how although the Germans and the Italians on the east coast are “dangers… the American government has not taken any such high-handed action” against them like they did with the Japanese....
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