Asian Americans and U.S. Law (Tanaka)

Resource 5 . 2

Recommended: Keith Aoki: No Right to Own: The Early Twentieth-Century Alien Land Laws as a Prelude to Internment, 40 B.C. L. Rev. 37 (1998-1999)

Marina Hsieh

This relatively brief article connects the themes of Chinese exclusion and the early 20th Century alien land laws to economic competition and structural racism that set the stage for the internment. California and San Francisco were "leaders" in anti-Japanese sentiment. 

Recommended: Keith Aoki: No Right to Own: The Early Twentieth-Century Alien Land Laws as a Prelude to Internment, 40 B.C. L. Rev. 37 (1998-1999)

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