ASIA AM 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: De Facto, Kibei, Ostracism

• School: UCLA
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: ASIA AM 10
• Professor: De Guzman

Document Summary

Democracy at war: the forced removal and mass incarceration of japanese and japanese americans. People use japanese internment camps to justify rejecting refugees. Disloyalty as genetic (idea that asians are different) For the protection of japanese americans (blaming the victim) Cultural brokers: shinto and buddhist priests, language school teachers, judo instructors. Included arrests of italian and german as well. Authorizes the secretary of war and any commander designated by him to prescribe military areas from which any or all persons may be excluded . Public law 503 allowed the courts to enforce eo 9066. Entrusted to scrupulous and unscrupulous attorneys, neighbors, employees, etc. Sometimes resistance is a protest, but it often occurs in small ways. Even though government said japanese needed to be put into internment camps, japanese in hawaii were needed to work on plantations. Proves removal to internment camp is based on racism. Defended by aclu in a test case before the scotus, 1942-1944.