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Coping with A New "Yellow Peril": Japanese Immigration, the Gentlemen's Agreement, and the Coming of World War II (2015)

Paul Finkelman, 117 W. Va. L. Rev. 1409

Elizabeth Tanaka

Coping with A New "Yellow Peril": Japanese Immigration, the Gentlemen's Agreement, and the Coming of World War II (2015)

Note: You may generally ignore the footnotes throughout the article, unless you find them interesting.

The following sections are assigned reading:

I.      Introduction (pp1409-1412)

V.     East Asian Immigration (skim pp1421-1425)

VI.    The New Yellow Peril: Japanese Immigration (pp1426-1432)

VII.   The Rise of Anti-Japanese Sentiment, School Segregation in San Francisco, and President Roosevelt (pp1432-1444)

VIII.  Toward Restriction and Exclusion (pp1444-1446)

IX.     The Diplomatic Impact of the Ban on Japanese Immigration (pp1446-1451)

X.      The Ultimate Costs of the Anti-Japanese Policy (pp1451-1459)

 

Coping with A New "Yellow Peril": Japanese Immigration, the Gentlemen's Agreement, and the Coming of World War II (2015)

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