... of 1941, caused a new sense of ethnic and national identity within the Japanese American community. In Jane Naomi Iwamura's article, "Japanese Americans and the Birth of a New Civil Religion,"" the author argues that: "what has emerged from the collective experience of war and internment is a faith that is tied to no particular religious tradition, but that takes racial-ethnicity identity as ... middle of the article she goes into great detail about the Japanese American National Museum. Though this does play an important role in remembering the internment of Japanese Americans, the aut...

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