warm-up 1.how would you feel if you encountered a japanese american walking past you on the sidewalk...
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Warm-Up1. How would you feel if you encountered a
Japanese American walking past you on the sidewalk the day after Pearl Harbor?
2. How would you feel if you were a Japanese American the day after Pearl Harbor?
Akiko K. was 16 years old when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. In this video clip she recalls her family's reaction and her own response.
Anti-Japanese Hysteria• The Japanese suffered discrimination for many years– Immigration Act (1924) barred Japanese Immigration
• Following the attack on Pearl Harbor anti-Japanese feelings increased.– Misconceptions & Stereotypes
• What misconceptions and/or stereotypes do some Americans have about Japanese?
– False Statements• Why didn’t Japanese American’s try to refute the statements
made against them?– The Media
• How did the media distort the image of the little kids playing with sling shots?
Executive Order 9066
• February 19, 1942 – FDR signs Executive Order 9066 authorizing the removal and incarceration of over 110,000 Japanese Americans– More than two-thirds of those incarcerated were
U.S. citizens and over half were children.– The 150,000 people of Japanese ancestry living in
Hawaii who were not removed or incarcerated.
Government Newsreel – Japanese Relocation (1943)
Inquiry: Why were Japanese Americans interned
during WWII?– What were some of the reasons for internment
offered in the newsreel? – How does the newsreel portray internment? Is it
positive or negative? – Who do you think the audience was for this
newsreel?
Document Analysis
Inquiry: Why were Japanese Americans interned during WWII?
– Document B – The Munson Report– Document C - The Crisis
– Document D – Korematsu Supreme Court Ruling– Document E – “Personal Justice Denied”
**For all documents, READ THE SOURCE INFO at the bottom of each page**
http://www.densho.org/sitesofshame/map.html
Which camp looks like it was the most appropriate location for any San Diego Japanese Americans to be sent to?
“I call them concentration camps…”
“By golly it was a concentration camp when you view them in the context of a democracy.”
Do you agree? Were these concentration camps? What should we call them?
President Reagan signed a bill providing $20,000 to each Japanese American sent to a relocation camp