Japanese Americans were imprisoned solely for racial appearance without hearings

Evidence

Of the more than 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry imprisoned during World War II, two-thirds were US citizens, and almost all of the remaining one-third were permanent residents. They were imprisoned solely because of their race, because they looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. They were innocent and had done nothing to suggest disloyalty. And yet they were still rounded up and sent to prison without so much as a hearing. The government justified this abuse of power as necessary to protect national security in a time of war. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 185

Categorization

• CANDY: A usable statistic for conversation: two-thirds of the 100,000+ imprisoned were US citizens.
• XREF: connects to: Internment of Japanese Americans was driven by racism, not military necessity; Japanese Americans were treated as enemies solely by racial appearance — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 165; Race alone justified the imprisonment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans. (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Internment of Japanese Americans was driven by racism, not military necessity; Japanese Americans were treated as enemies solely by racial appearance — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 165; Race alone justified the imprisonment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans. (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Race alone justified the imprisonment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans. #corroborates (0.97)
• US citizens were imprisoned without hearing solely because of their race. #corroborates (0.95)
• Only Japanese Americans faced mass incarceration without individual review #corroborates (0.92) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 198