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Week Thirteen Lecture Outlines

Lecture 21: Japanese Migration to the U.S., 1868-1924

  1. Japan on Eve of Migration

    1. Feudal heritage of Tokugawa Shogunate
    2. Decline of feudal obligations--Meiji Restoration
    3. Population Increase
    4. Rural-urban Migration
    5. New Economic Vulnerability

  2. Japanese Migration

    1. Hawaii
      1. Plantation economy
      2. Geographic and social origins of migrants

    2. Mainland
      1. Governmental interest in Japanese abroad
      2. Japan as world power in period
      3. Relative male-female balance

  3. Japanese in California

    1. Economic Place
    2. Ethnic Organizations
    3. Nativism Toward the Japanese
      1. Exclusion Movement and Gentlemen's Agreement
      2. Discriminatory California laws
      3. Federal Actions

Lecture 22: Internment During World War II: Accommodation and Resistance

  1. The Decision to Intern

  2. Accommodation

    1. Nisei and their values
    2. Changing power balance between generations

  3. Resistance to Authority

    1. Intra-group conflict and authorities
    2. The Draft
    3. Court challenges
      Gordon Hirabayashi
      Fred Korematsu
      Mitsuye Endo
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