AAS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: 442Nd Infantry Regiment (United States), War Brides Act, Go For Broke! (1951 Film)

• School: CSUN
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: AAS 100
• Professor: Allan A Aquino

Document Summary

Asian american studies 100: world war 2 and post-1965 immigration. *jas comprised the largest ethnic group in hi (37% of work force), and the price of building large-scale camps or transporting ja"s to the us mainland would have been too costly. Two-thirds of jas were american citizens without ties to imperial japan. Ja residents in hawaii were largely not interned! German and italian americans eyed, some arrested, though not interned en masse. Millions of dollars in ja property (homes, farms, businesses) was confiscated, resold, nand not. For chinese, korean, indians, and filipinos (overseas and in the us): the two-fold agenda for active participation in world war 2. : liberate motherlands in asia (china, korea, india, the philippines) from imperial japanese oppression, prove american patriotism. While japanese americans ( jas ), mostly us citizens, proved their loyalty to america . Issei - 1st generation (first to immigrate and settle) Nisei - 2nd generation (us-born children of 1st generation)