History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Executive Order 9066, Pearl Harbor, Ethnic Conflict
27 Sep 2017
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South us was deeply segregated during ph attack. Labeled the japs as treacherous did(cid:374)"t try to ide(cid:374)tify the (cid:862)good(cid:863) jap. Sneak attack at pearl harbor made the americans react. First time they had experienced this kind of attack (cid:862)good japs are dead japs(cid:863) magazine. Propaganda highly racialized aligned them t=with hitler. Having asians attend specific schools, and barring them from owning/leasing land. Made worse by the fact that japs had taken american territory in the philippines. Ad(cid:373)iral willia(cid:373) (cid:862)bull(cid:863) halsey commanded pacific fleet. Wanted to get back at the japs take revenge. Also portrayed as apes animals, monkey-like. Routine use of slang in media and government docs. Were(cid:374)"t as (cid:374)egati(cid:448)ely sla(cid:374)g -using towards the germans. Relocation of 110 000 japs to concentration camps most of these were american citizens. Canadians and mexicans and peruvians did this too. Germans and italians were not rounded up though. But did(cid:374)"t ddo this o(cid:374) ha(cid:449)aii japs made up too much of population.
