Japanese internment further underscores how whiteness has been the perquisite for American citizenship since the inception of the nation during the eighteenth century. Forced incarceration merely because of their race represents a blatant example of alien citizenship in the history of the United States. During internment Japanese men and women faced harsh racism and family strain on a quotidian basis due to the government forcibly and hastily uprooting all Japanese and Japanese Americans from their homes. Assessing and judging the legality of this government, according to official policy, requires clear-cut proof that the Japanese residing in the West Coast Continue reading...
