Quotes From Farewell To Manzanar

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In the Novel, Farewell to Manzanar By Jeanne Wakatsuki & James D. Houston, the novel describes the experiences of Jeanne Wakatsuki and her families experience at the United States government internment camp, before, during, and after their lives in Manzanar internment camp. Throughout the novel, it explores many different types of hatred towards Japanese Americans during this time period. This paper will talk about the different forms of hatred depicted in Farewell to Manzanar and the actions of the United States conducted toward Japanese Americans.
Before the war, immigrants from Japan came to the United States to find work and provide a better future for their families in the States. Leading up to WW2, many Japanese Americans lived comfortably in America. First-generation Japanese Americans, are called Issei. While second-generation Japanese Americans were called Nisei. Who transformed huge West Coast land into lush farms. Japanese American residents in California possessed about two percent of the …show more content…

Roosevelt, “this order authorized the forced removal of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to "relocation centers" further inland – resulting in the incarceration of Japanese Americans.”
This order forced many Japanese to leave their homes and businesses and live in cramped, unsanitary internment camps. Where racial prejudice was being used by the United States to rationale Executive Order 9066. This order rationale was based on the government's belief; with no true evidence, that Japanese-Americans were potential spies and saboteurs, and it allowed for the mass internment of innocent Japanense-American citizens based on their ancestry where over 120,000 innocent Japanese-American lives were forced to move in internment war camps. These camps were very inhumane, Japanese Americans lived in overcrowded camps with no basic amenities. Camps

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