Asian Americans Application
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/09/210138278/japanese-internment-redress
What do you think?
Using the texts, the lectures, and the internet write about the following:
1.Compare and contrast the Japanese relocation camps with Indigenous Peoples’ (Native American) reservations in terms of paternalism and coerced acculturation.
2.What impact did WW II Japanese Internment experience have on the Japanese Americans economically? How were Japanese Americans compensated for their losses? (see article in link above) Does the compensation paid to Japanese Americans provide a precedent for possible similar payments (or reparations) to African Americans for their losses under slavery? Why or why not?
Compare and contrast the Japanese relocation camps with Indigenous Peoples’ (Native American) reservations in terms of paternalism and coerced acculturation.
