Family Process, April 1st, 2002
As a Japanese American...* As a Japanese-American, the events of September 11th generate distinct and perhaps unique resonances. The many analogies to Pearl Harbor evoke not only the universal American shock, horror, and outrage at that surprise military attack, but summon other associations for me as well. Pearl Harbor, the "first battle of the American involvement in World War II," was also the trigger for a definitive and culminating expression of decades of anti-Japanese sentiment and anti-Asian racism in the U.S. With the signing of Executive Order 9066, in the wake of Pearl Harbor, appr...
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