ASAMST 20AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mike Masaoka, Gordon Hirabayashi, Coram Nobis
7 Dec 2017
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1941 us war matls to japan competition. Korea (1910), china (1937), and se asia and philippines (1941) Citizenship and wartime employment for other asian groups. No distinction made between japanese nationals and japanese americans. Expected attacks on east indies, malaya, and pi. Report on japanese on the west coast (munson report): Media: walter lippmann -- west coast battlefields. Native sons and daughters of the golden west. Ca attorney general, earl warren, was a proponent of internment. General john l. dewitt, western defense command. 5th column they would be a fighting unit for japan that is inside the us. Therefore, it was a military necessity to intern japanese. Wait for bus to assembly center (tanforan) March 1942: 1k japanese farms transferred to others. Japanese americans support war effort and 100% compliance. Internment was wrong way to treat citizens. 1943 segregation of disloyalty (heart mountain to tule lake) Q28: swear allegiance to us and forswear allegiance to japan.
