If an American is ask to tell of a time when people, because of racial or ethnical issues, were forcefully sent to live in harsh or deadly conditions, or to tell of a time when a group of people were made to improvise a living community under insane conditions, that American would probably think about the time of the Holocaust. If an American was asked to give an example on which people on American land were forced to leave places that they considered home and placed to live else where, a number of Americans would most likely speak of the time during which the Native Americans were forced to leave a place that they thought of as theirs and were assigned to live in areas that were set up to basically "store" these Natives. If an American is asked to tell of a time where a group of people were forced to make a new life for over years in a place that was in question of it's safety, suitability, or resourcefulness, again probably many Americans would think of the time during the heartache of the Native Americans. The time that a large amount of Americans would not think about is when Americans forced other Americans along with others to "relocate", such as Japanese-Americans and non-American Japanese, during the battle of World War II. .
Another thing that many Americans would probably fail to think about is the struggles that were endured, the efforts that were made, and the effectiveness that took place when all of these mentioned groups of people made their new place of living a community of their own in some way or another. When speaking about the actions that where taken against Japanese-Americans and non-American Japanese, a person can find that a mass quantity of people know little to nothing about what went on. So it is reasonable to assume that they would be lacking in the ability to think about a community life style in relocation camps.
She and the other women of the community notice the boats returning. ... The family is soon sent to Manzanar, a Japanese internment camp inland. ... The living quarters do not get better for a long time, but the War Department does send old clothes from World War I so that the people at Manzanar are not so cold. ... There, they always ate meals together, which they do not do at Manzanar. ...
In some camps teams played softball because of lack of equipment like Jack Kunitomi who spent the internment time in Manzanar. ... As for Kunitomi and the Manzanar camp players and teams were able to order equipment and formed more than 80 baseball teams. ... Internees' ability to find ways to turn the relocation site experience into a sort of small community was a way of showing defiance to the government and letting them know that they could not keep Japanese American morale and cultural values down. ...
In some camps teams played softball because of lack of equipment like Jack Kunitomi who spent the internment time in Manzanar. ... As for Kunitomi and the Manzanar camp players and teams were able to order equipment and formed more than 80 baseball teams. ... Internees' ability to find ways to turn the relocation site experience into a sort of small community was a way of showing defiance to the government and letting them know that they could not keep Japanese American morale and cultural values down....
Using the courtroom and Kabuo's murder case, Guterson places the entire community of San Piedro on trial, highlighting the fragility of the island as a whole. ... However, Guterson is eager to constantly emphasis the difference of ideals of individual and community. While Kabuo is labelled a poker-faced Jap by the San Piedro community, it is the testimony of those who know Kabuo as an individual which can look past racial circles. ... In their closing statements, the prosecution plays its hand by identifying Kabuo as part of the Japanese community, a group not willingly accepted by S...
"One of the patterns emerging from the post 9-11 government policies is the use of race,religion,and ethnicity to target particular communities in the U.S. for arrest, detention and removal. ... As one can see in this disgustingly racist portrayal of a Japanese soldier, the subject's eyes are exaggeratedly skewed in an up to down manner, the teeth are bucked (something that I have rarely seen in the Japanese community), and also notice how the ears and eyes are slightly misaligned, which is probably stating something to the extent of "Japanese people are not as smart as us." ...
(John Tateishi pg. xiv) There were no grounds for evicting the Japanese Americans so west coast politicians and pressure groups turned to racial attacks that questioned the loyalty of the entire Japanese community. ... During this time Hawaii was considering relocating it's Japanese communities but they did not because Japanese Americans were Hawaii's major work force. ... There were fifteen different relocation camps that the Japanese people were sent to such as, Manzanar and Tule Lake in California, Poston and Gila River in Arizona, Minidoka in Idaho, Topaz in Utah, Heart Mountain ...
