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Alien Land Law Japanese

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“race” was legally constructed along a white-nonwhite binary, with Chinese immigrants categorized as “nonwhites.”
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  If you are not white you cannot own land. This was particularly aimed at Chinese and Japanese
  
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This anti-Chinese racism was easily transferred to Japanese agricultural workers, who began entering the country in increasing numbers after 1890.
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Japanese agricultural laborers were classified as “nonwhite,” and they were therefore barred from becoming U.S. citizens
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Their success in agriculture was held against them, however: White farmers viewed them as unfair competitors because entire Japanese families would work their farms and save labor costs.
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“Alien Land Law”
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passed by the California legislature in 1913. The law granted aliens eligible for U.S. citizenship plenary property ownership rights but limited “aliens ineligible to citizenship”
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  This says that only immigrants who could become citizens could own land. Since Japanese could not become citizens they could not own land.
  
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This legal sanction was a response to the economic success of Japanese truck farmers in California in the early twentieth century.
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Despite the 1913 law, Japanese land holdings increased.
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Private ownership of land occupies a central position in American law
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1859 Oregon Constitution, which declared that no “Chinaman” could ever own land in Oregon.
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Michael Eppolito on 17 Dec 09

Read this article and think about why white farmers would want Japanese farmers removed from the west coast. What search terms might you use to explore this conflict more deeply?

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Michael Eppolito on 18 Dec 09

This is a good article to use in your poster work.

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Internet Archive: Free Download: Milton Eisenhower Explains U.S. Reasons For Japanese R... - 1 views

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eisenhower Japanese internment

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Milton Eisenhower was in charge of the War Relocation Authority in this video he explains why the Japanese on the west coast need to be relcated.

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Michael Eppolito on 17 Dec 09

The head of the War Relocation Authority gives reasons for internment.

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Japanese internment frontier photograps

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This site includes some photographs of camp life.

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Children of the Camps | INTERNMENT HISTORY - 6 views

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Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which permitted the military to circumvent the constitutional safeguards of American citizens in the name of national defense.
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  This explains what Executive order 9066 is.
  
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These Japanese Americans, half of whom were children,
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  Would that mean almost 60,000 children?
  
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