No-No Boy | Historical Context
Internment of Japanese Americans
After the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the U.S. government considered that Japanese Americans were a threat to national security because they might support Japan rather than the United States. Much of this suspicion was fueled by racism, the belief that Japanese immigrants were somehow different and could never be fully American. The American fear of Japanese immigrants was evident historically in a law passed in 1924 that prohibited intermarriage between Japanese men and white women. There was also...
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