... Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the Executive Order 9066, which ordered the interment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans in the United States. Two-thirds of those interred were American citizens. President Roosevelt feared that these people with ... Japanese ancestry might commit acts of treason against the United States during World War II ("Japanese..."" 1). This fear was based on race alone. The government's interment of Japanese Americans did not effect national security. It only served to add ... used tracking down real threats. Millions of dollars were spent on the interment of Ja...

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... workplace and are often victims of racially-motivated harassment and violence." In support of its conclusions, the commission referred to its review of court records and extensive scientific studies. Asian Americans themselves particularly complained of a "glass ceiling" which prevents them from being promoted to higher levels of management. Public-opinion surveys also report a persistence of racist attitudes. The ... citizens, acknowledge the impact of material insecurity on this issue openly. These hostilities often boil over into overt racism. As the Chronicle reported: "The descendan...

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... of China, Korea, Tonkin, Pegu, Siam, and Ava, who were characterized by monosyllabic languages, depravity, and perfidiousness of spirit and manners; Southern: The Ostiaks, Siberians, Tunguses, Mantchoos, Tartars, Calmucks, and Japanese. 3. Africa: The inhabitants were black men, who were muscular and had a prominent upper jaw, swelling lips, turned-up nose, and very black curly hair. 4. The rest of America: The inhabitants ... of laborers, since the indentured servants from Europe had terms of servitude ending. Once these Africans reached the shores of America, they were immediately sold...

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... or sub-sets of self termed ethnic peoples and it is obvious that they qualify as a group. In her book Changing Cultures Changing Lives Christie Kiefers (1974) says about the Japanese-American culture: most I interviewed did not apply the word community to a geographical area or to their ethnic group. The important human grouping in their world are kin, friendship, church members ... and club members. These groupings tend to overlap but by no means coincide (p. 5, origainal emphesis) So here in this case the ethnic people did not apply the idea of being Japanese to a larger spectrum of s...

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... to Okinawa, Japan, Formosa, and the Philippines. While in Japan, he says he experienced his first true understanding of racism when other Marines were calling the Japanese "Chinks- and "Japs."" Witnessing that racism towards the Asians sensitized him to the other forms of racism in the world around him (Personal Interview). When his ... 1990 entitled "Race Relations and the Nineties: Where are the Dreams of the Sixties?- In this article he writes about the dreams Americans once had of a future of racial equality, and how those dreams have never been fully achieved. Killian says that eve...

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