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Racism
Japanese Internment
World War II.
In the early part of World War II 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were wrongfully interned by the United State’s government. ...
American citizen or not, the constitutional rights of the Japanese Americans interned did not translate beyond the barbed confinement of the relocation centers. ... The injustices and racism suffered within the camps as a result of hysteria and economic exploitation were bound to scar irreparably. ...
Though the internment of the Japanese brought them to the forefront of the American public’s attention, men and women had been immigrating to the United States from Japan in waves since the late 1800’s. ... An association of Hawaiian sugar plantations recruited over 29,000 Japanese, between 1885 and 1894, as contract laborers. ... World Book Encyclopedia, 2000 ed. ... ”
Opposition to Japanese settlement began early. In 1905 an organization which later became the Asiatic Exclusion League was established in hopes of stemming the immigration of Asians, especially the Japanese. ... However, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, would once again stir hostility against the Japanese to a fevered pitch. The attack drew America into the war. Hysteria and racism, directed at the Japanese, were soon to erupt within the American public.3
Hysteria surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor inevitably led to dramatic levels of racism aimed at Japanese-Americans. Public uproar was aroused by the fact that many Japanese immigrants born in Japan, but living on American soil for decades, had yet to acquire American citizenship, sure proof, many claimed, of their continued allegiance to the Emperor.
Approximate Word count = 1301
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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