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'Exclusion,' 'Evacuation,' and Incarceration: When official bigotry targeted Japanese Americans

'Exclusion,' 'Evacuation,' and Incarceration: When official bigotry targeted Japanese Americans

Eliminationism in America, Part 10: The long-building conspiratorial animus toward Asian immigrants became an easy springboard for roundups and concentration camps after Pearl Harbor.

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The ‘Relocation Center’ at Minidoka, located in the south-central Idaho desert.

Part 10 of 14. [Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.]

There was a great deal of hysteria along the Pacific Coast in the weeks and months after Pearl Harbor, including sightings of phantom warplanes over Los Angeles and reports of "arrows of fire" near Seattle pointing the way …

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