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Marginalization Of Japanese Americans During World War II

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Another period the 20th century witnessed intensive numbers of racial minorities marginalized was during War World II. “Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, played directly into California long history of hostility toward minorities, especially Asians, and created war hysteria that brought down on Japanese Americas the full force of that legacy” (Eden, 453). After the Pearl Harbor attack Japanese became one of the biggest targets in the United States because of an uprising fear of more attacks and Japanese intruders. Japanese had become the new racial minority enemies (Eden, 454). Many Japanese living in the United States became victims of the FBI discriminations as they FBI detained many Japanese males into “all-male internment

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