scholarly journals Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-49
Author(s):  
Jaime Arellano-Bover
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Internment Camps ◽  
Japanese American Internment ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Economic Diversity ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The U.S

In 1942 more than 110,000 persons of Japanese origin living on the U.S. West Coast were forcibly sent away to ten internment camps for one to three years. This paper studies how internees’ careers were affected in the long run. Combining Census data, camp records, and survey data, I develop a predictor of a person’s internment status based on Census observables. Using a difference-in-differences framework, I find that internment had long-run positive effects on earnings. The evidence is consistent with mechanisms related to increased mobility due to re-optimization of occupation and location choices, possibly facilitated by camps’ high economic diversity.

Kilsoo Haan, American Intelligence, and the Anticipated Japanese Invasion of California, 1931–1943

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Masaru Hayashi
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Negative Reaction ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
The West ◽  
Japanese American Internment ◽  
Yellow Peril

To what extent did U.S. intelligence believe that Imperial Japanese forces would invade the West Coast, an idea that many believe was responsible for the alleged atmosphere of wartime hysteria that led to mass confinement of West Coast Japanese Americans? Based on unused archival materials, this article shows that these agencies dismissed the idea of an impending Japanese invasion, shown by their negative reaction to Korean nationalist Kilsoo Haan’s “Yellow Peril” prediction of a Japanese invasion of California in 1943. It also demonstrates that assumptions about Yellow Peril ideas require more nuanced analysis, for they were not universally accepted or as widespread as often believed. The chapter concludes with observations on Kilsoo Haan, U.S. intelligence, and Japanese American internment.

Blackface Behind Barbed Wire: Gender and Racial Triangulation in the Japanese American Internment Camps

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Roxworthy
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
World War ◽  
Internment Camps ◽  
Us History ◽  
Japanese American Internment ◽  
Racial Impersonation ◽  
Blackface Performance

In a dark footnote to a dark chapter in US history, Japanese Americans interned by their own government during World War II performed in blackface behind barbed wire. Exploring blackface performance in the camps raises questions regarding the potential resistance of racial impersonation and blackface's potential for triangulating race.

Kilsoo Haan, American Intelligence, and the Anticipated Japanese Invasion of California, 1931–1943

2012 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-293
Author(s):  
Brian Masaru Hayashi
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Negative Reaction ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
The West ◽  
Japanese American Internment ◽  
Yellow Peril

To what extent did U.S. intelligence believe that Imperial Japanese forces would invade the West Coast, an idea that many believe was responsible for the alleged atmosphere of wartime hysteria that led to mass confinement of West Coast Japanese Americans? Based on unused archival materials, this article shows that these agencies dismissed the idea of an impending Japanese invasion, shown by their negative reaction to Korean nationalist Kilsoo Haan’s “Yellow Peril” prediction of a Japanese invasion of California in 1943. It also demonstrates that assumptions about Yellow Peril ideas require more nuanced analysis, for they were not universally accepted or as widespread as often believed. The article concludes with observations on Kilsoo Haan, U.S. intelligence, and Japanese American internment.

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