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Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947-
Subjects
Korematsu, Fred, 1919-2005 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 20th century.
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
Japanese Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Internal security -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
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Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947-
Korematsu, Fred, 1919-2005 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 20th century.
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
Japanese Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Internal security -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
MARC Display
Days
of
infamy
:
how
a
century
of
bigotry
led
to
Japanese
American
internment
/ Lawrence Goldstone.
by
Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947-
Scholastic Focus, c2022.
Call #:
341.67 G624di
Subjects
Korematsu, Fred, 1919-2005 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Japanese
Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 20th
century
.
Japanese
Americans -- Forced removal and
internment
, 1942-1945.
Japanese
Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
Japanese
Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th
century
.
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
World War, 1939-1945 --
Japanese
Americans.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Internal security -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
9781338722468
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xviii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-235) and index.
Contents:
Free and white -- White, black, ... and gold -- Ah yup -- Enter the
Japanese
-- Birthright -- Exclusion -- The workers ... -- ... and the boss -- Tremors -- A convenient target -- Mr. Schmitz goes to Washington -- Here come the brides -- This land is (not) your land -- Fake news -- Slamming the golden door -- All in the family -- The golden west -- The heart of an
American
-- What meets the eye -- Turning the soil -- Banzai and baseball -- Fear and fiction -- No island paradise --
Infamy
-- Four who refused -- Shame.
Summary:
On December 7, 1941--'a date which will live in
infamy
'--the
Japanese
navy launched an attack on the
American
military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000 Americans to what government officials themselves called 'concentration camps.' None of these citizens had been accused of a real crime. All of them were torn from their homes, jobs, schools, and communities, and deposited in tawdry, makeshift housing behind barbed wire, solely for the crime of being of
Japanese
descent. President Roosevelt declared this community 'alien,'--whether they were citizens or not, native-born or not--accusing them of being potential spies and saboteurs for Japan who deserved to have their Constitutional rights stripped away. In doing so, the president set in motion another date which would live in
infamy
, the day when the US joined the ranks of those Fascist nations that had forcibly deported innocents solely on the basis of the circumstance of their birth. In 1944 the US Supreme Court ruled, in Korematsu v. United States, that the forcible deportation and detention of
Japanese
Americans on the basis of race was a 'military necessity.' Today it is widely considered one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time. But Korematsu was not an isolated event. In fact, the Court's racist ruling was the result of a deep-seated anti-Japanese, anti-Asian sentiment running all the way back to the California Gold Rush of the mid-1800s. Starting from this pivotal moment, Constitutional law scholar Lawrence Goldstone will take young readers through the key events of the 19th and 20th centuries leading up to the fundamental injustice of
Japanese
American
internment
. Tracing the history of
Japanese
immigration to America and the growing fear whites had of losing power, Goldstone will raise deeply resonant questions of what makes an
American
an
American
, and what it means for the Supreme Court to stand as the 'people's' branch of government.
Audience:
Ages 12 and up Scholastic Focus
Grades 10-12 Scholastic Focus
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