Japanese Americans were treated as enemies solely by racial appearance

Evidence

But the Masuda family’s American Dream quickly turned into a nightmare on the night of December 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy.” On that day Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, destroying and damaging US battleships and killing or wounding more than 3,500 servicemen and civilians. It was soon open season on Americans of Japanese ancestry—whether they were citizens or not—because in the eyes of their fellow Americans, they represented the face of the enemy. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 165

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racist conspiracy fears drove Japanese internment and Red Scare witch hunts — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 83; The US interned Japanese-Americans by legally recategorizing them from enemies to an enemy race.; Internment of Japanese Americans was driven by racism, not military necessity (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Racist conspiracy fears drove Japanese internment and Red Scare witch hunts — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 83; The US interned Japanese-Americans by legally recategorizing them from enemies to an enemy race.; Internment of Japanese Americans was driven by racism, not military necessity (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Japanese Americans were imprisoned solely for racial appearance without hearings #corroborates (0.95) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 185
• Race alone justified the imprisonment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans. #corroborates (0.95)