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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

Marina Hsieh

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

As background for the WWII cases and Japanese internment, please skim the introduction (Section I) and Sections VI-X on Japanese exclusion and segregation and its impact on foreign relations. (pp1409-1412, 1426-1459)

Optional: You may generally ignore the footnotes. You might also find the brief summary of the earlier history of immigration in the US from pre-Revolutionary times to the Chinese exclusion interesting.

 

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

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