HIST 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Japanese American Citizens League, Santa Barbara City College, Nisei
Document Summary
Fighting and internment: what the american japanese endured in the 1930s, the 1930 u. s. census reported about 280,000 people of japanese origin living in the united states and hawaii continental. The immigration act of 1924 had terminated all japanese immigration: japanese families nevertheless continued to grow, as a result, in the 1930 census more than 60 percent of all japanese. Americans were born in the usa: these nisei, or japanese-americans of second generation, grew up with both. Despite the japanese"s attempts to be part of two cultures, america"s relentless anti- Japanese racism caused a number of issei and nisei to leave the united states for hawaii: there, a large segment of the population had become japanese immigrants. During the 1930s more than 20,000 japanese americans migrated from the united states to hawaii: many of the japanese who remained in the u. s. turned to groups like the japanese.
