Reference no: EM133311103

Japanese American Incarceration

Introduction

Japanese-American internment shamefully stained the ideals of the Four Freedoms. In response to Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which stated that people identified as a threat can be removed by federal authorities. This order was used primarily on the west coast of the United States where it was applied to issei (first generation Americans) and nissei (recent immigrants) who were relocated to internment camps throughout the desert west. The Supreme Court upheld the legality of those camps even as the Japanese-American 442nd regimental combat team became the most highly decorated unit in the war.

Instructions

Please read the following memoir from Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga (Links to an external site.), a Sacramento native living in Los Angeles at the time, about her experiences at Manzanar, a notorious internment camp in the desert. When you have finished reading her excerpt, please provide in-text responses to the following questions. You only need the document for this assignment. Be sure to include specific information from the document to support your assertions. Each response should be 1 o o +.

Question 1: How did the bombing of Pearl Harbor affect Yoshinaga's sense of American identity?

Question 2: What issues did she confront in the internment camps?