Transcript of Presentation on Japanese American History
- 1. assimilating places japanese immigrants & american urban
planning Ayanna yonemura, ph.d. Monday, November 17, 14
- 2. lecture synopsis The then-emerging eld of urban planning
impacted the United States governments World War Two-era policies
on Japanese Americans as the policy of resettling Japanese
Americans out of government camps was an attempt to use cities to
assimilate Japanese Americans to Euro-American norms. Monday,
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- 3. lecture overview Introduction & Pre-WWII History WWII,
Forced Removal & Incarceration Dillon S. Myer &
Resettlement Policy Conclusion Monday, November 17, 14
- 4. introduction & pre-wwii history Background of U.S. &
Idea of White Superiority Oppression of Indigenous Population &
Slavocracy Cheap Labor Anti-Immigration Laws & Assimilation
Theories Monday, November 17, 14
- 5. asians in the us, pre-wwii (Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a
different shore.) Monday, November 17, 14
- 6. pre-wwii racism (hayden, dolores. the power of place.)
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- 7. anti-japanese racism (hayden, dolores. the power of place.)
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- 8. wwii, forced removal & incarceration timeline Japan
bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Dec. 7, 1941 US govt imprisoned 2000
Japanese immigrant men Week of Dec. 7, 1941 Pres. Roosevelt signs
Executive Order 9066 re. military areas Feb. 1942 Executive Order
est.s War Relocation Authority March 1942 Monday, November 17,
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- 9. camp locations Monday, November 17, 14
- 10. typical war relocation authority camp Monday, November 17,
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- 11. dillon s.myer & the resettlement policy Myer as a
Pre-Planner, the New Deal & Tugwell The Idea of Euro-American
Cultural Supremacy Environmental Determinism & the Chicago
School of Sociology Implementing Resettlement Monday, November 17,
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- 12. dillon s. myer war relocation authority director Monday,
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- 13. resettlement demographics (dorothy swayne thomas, the
salvage.) Monday, November 17, 14
- 14. temporary leave application Monday, November 17, 14
- 15. resettlement timeline Text Loyalty Questionnaires Feb 1943
Myer attends Race Relations Conference, University of Chicago Early
1943 Resettlement Implemented for 36,000 March 1943-Dec 1944 War
Relocation Authority terminated June 1946 Monday, November 17,
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- 16. war relocation authority leave permit, 1944 Monday,
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- 17. resettlments legacy Japanese American Demographics The
Ideas of Place, Environmental Determinism & Assimilation Native
Americans, African Americans, Vietnamese, poor people, immigrants
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- 18. japanese americans, 2000 census Monday, November 17,
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- 19. 1940 90% 1947 55% 1950 60% 1960 70% 2000 80% 2010 71% % of
Japanese Americans on the West Coast (out of those on the mainland
U.S.) Monday, November 17, 14
- 20. 2010 top japanese american Urban areas (U.S. Census. The
Asian Population in the United States: Results from the 2010
Census, pg. 19, May 2012.) Honolulu, Hawaii Greater Los Angeles,
California San Francisco Bay Area, California Greater San Jose
Area, California Los Vegas, Nevada Monday, November 17, 14
- 21. conclusion Emerging urban planning impacted resettlement
policy Place & assimilation became intertwined in public policy
Ideas of cultural superiority remain Monday, November 17, 14