Internment Camps

A look at how fear fires prejudice and in turn, prejudice makes us cruel

This article discusses how the Japanese living in America during World War 2 suffered from segregation and persecution.

Japanese Canadians were interned during that second world war days, also German and Italian Canadian political activists. Adrien Arcand was a Montreal Journalist and fascist who campaigned from 1929 until his death in 1967.

Japanese Canadians petitioned the Royal Commission to look at their dire living conditions. They were granted a few changes; however not nearly as much as they needed.

The actually internment camps were for suspected criminals and not the bulk of the Japanese Community.

Though Japanese women are traditionally submissive and modest, the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II made these women rise above their traditional roles, becoming stronger and more American in the process.

An examination of the internment camps that Americans forced Japanese and Japanese-Americans into. Focusing on the despicable conditions and horrible treatment of the prisoners. Also the fear that Americans had toward their once friends and neighbors.

The great depression took its toll on men and women alike and it was only until the 1940's and World War II that the depression ended and a boom for War materials were needed.

An overview of the Japanese internment.

This is my rhetorical analysis on an American propaganda video that talked positively about the relocation camps.

A suggestion for an exhibit about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War Two.

This article compares the camps in the U.S. and Germany during World War II.

This article discusses the Japanese internment camps during WWII.

This is overview of racist views and actions of both Americans and Japanese in the Pacific theater of World War II.

American Pastime presenting the story in an entertaining way everyone can relate to.

Immigration has always been controversial in the United States. The group at the center of the debate is all that really changes.

The west coast white farmers admitted that they were happy for the removal of the Japanese who were their competitors, with the Japanese eliminated they could take over their farms and businesses.

An anti-Japanese feeling long before World War II. By 1905 California had enacted the anti-miscegenation law. A law forbidding marriage between Mongolians (people from the East) and Caucasians.

They were sent to places no wanted to be. They made homes and lives with their own two hands. More, they created beauty out nothing.

The Japanese immigrated to Hawaii in order to escape oppression in Japan. However, when they came to Hawaii, they found that their situation might not have improved as much as they might have wanted.

One commercial against Prop 8 compares the issue to the internment of the Japanese during World War II. It was a bad idea, and did not work.

There is a common belief that immigration only hurts the U.S economy. In this current moment, where the economy is near a recession, one must analyze the immigration situation and realize that they actually help our economy.

To the Lady, a poem written by Mitsuye Yamada, addresses the question asked by a woman in a San Francisco newspaper: Why the Japanese-Americans "LET" themselves be rounded up and taken to internment camps. My question is Why did Americans "LET" this happen?

Review of story presented on Ken Burns The War in which an interred mother kept nursed her baby through malnutrition, disease and deprivation.