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    This article provides a psychohistorical analysis of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It notes that while Japanese Americans faced significant discrimination, other minority groups also experienced racial prejudice and forced quarantines in the US. The internment of Japanese Americans furthered racial hatred against them, as they were the only group against which the US dropped atomic bombs. The article argues that the strong push for assimilation of Japanese Americans nearly resulted in their cultural genocide, and that villainy during this period came not just from abroad but also from within the US.

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    This article provides a psychohistorical analysis of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It notes that while Japanese Americans faced significant discrimination, other minority groups also experienced racial prejudice and forced quarantines in the US. The internment of Japanese Americans furthered racial hatred against them, as they were the only group against which the US dropped atomic bombs. The article argues that the strong push for assimilation of Japanese Americans nearly resulted in their cultural genocide, and that villainy during this period came not just from abroad but also from within the US.

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    This article provides a psychohistorical analysis of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It notes that while Japanese Americans faced significant discrimination, other minority groups also experienced racial prejudice and forced quarantines in the US. The internment of Japanese Americans furthered racial hatred against them, as they were the only group against which the US dropped atomic bombs. The article argues that the strong push for assimilation of Japanese Americans nearly resulted in their cultural genocide, and that villainy during this period came not just from abroad but also from within the US.

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    AN: 9512082953
    Title: A Psychohistorical Analysis of the Japanese American Internment.
    PublicationDate: 19951101
    Contributors: Renteln, Alison Dundes;
    DocTypes: Article;
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    CoverDate: Nov95
    PeerReviewed: true
    Source: Human Rights Quarterly
    IsiType: JOUR
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    ISSNS: 02750392;
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    RecordType: ARTICLES
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    PageStart: 618
    PageEnd: 648
    PageCount: 31
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 4
    Abstract: This article presents a psychohistorical analysis of the Japanese American
    internment during World War II. It is certainly true that the Japanese are not the
    sole objects of racial discrimination by European Americans. Other minority groups
    have suffered the consequences as well. Furthermore, the idea of internment of
    racial groups is not a new one. In response to a few reports of bubonic plague
    in Chinatown in San Francisco at the turn of the century, thousands of Chinese
    Americans were placed in quarantine for several months. They were then induced,
    along with many Japanese Americans, to receive inoculations of a hazardous
    experimental vaccine. Yet, it is possible that the Japanese arouse greater racial
    hatred than other minority groups. After all, the United States has dropped atomic
    bombs only on Japan. Furthermore, economic competition with Japan in the I980s
    elicited some extraordinarily hostile responses. Another insight gained from the study
    of the Japanese American internment is that villainy is not only to be found abroad.
    It might be argued that the United States obsessive concern with assimilation almost
    resulted in the cultural genocide of Americans of Japanese ancestry.
    DOI: 10.1353/hrq.1995.0039
    Language: English
    Subjects: Race discrimination; Minorities; Genocide; International relations; Japan;
    United States; Foreign affairs; International Affairs; Japanese Americans; World War
    II;
    plink: https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=99c70fe2-aa4a-34b3-9463-
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