Operation Wetback Stereotypes

The day after bombing, Congress approved Roosevelt’s declaration to start the war with Japan. After that Italy and Germany declared war on the United States. Couple months after the tragical event at Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order for all Japanese Americans to evacuate West Coast in order to provide “national security”. It cause relocation of nearly 120,000 people, more than a half of whom were American citizens. They were relocated to internment camps. Japanese aliens were called “enemy aliens”.

In the story, Watership Down, the rabbits tell stories about a trickster rabbit named El-ahrairah and the rabbits have a parallel action between the stories. The story is about few rabbits who leave their warren because one of the rabbits feels that there is danger near them and they decide to go far away from their home. The rabbits tell stories at times when something big or bad is happening. The stories are all about a past rabbit, El-ahrairah who tricks other rabbits to do good things for his warren and to collect food. Many of the plans that the rabbits make are similar to the tricks that El-ahrairah does. In Watership Down, a rabbit named Dandelion tells stories about El-ahrairah and Hazel’s rabbits are influenced by the stories to make plans that relate to El-ahrairah’s tricks.

World War II was a war for democracy that brought the nation out of the Great Depression, but it was also a war that exposed the dark side of Americans, which made them resemble their enemies. This is evidenced by the American decision to use the atomic bomb to cause the destruction described by Hersey, and Churchill and Kennan’s portrayal of the Russians as “other.” Ngai discusses the challenges Mexican and Japanese immigrants faced at the time, and the inherent racism behind these challenges. Around the mid-twentieth century, America started importing braceros, \ to satisfy labor demands, and to limit wetbacks. Many joined the bracero program because it offered high wages, but broke their contracts when they faced mistreatment and illegal

With the outbreak of World War I immigration was put to a stop and Ellis Island was turned into a detention center for enemy aliens specifically German Americans or German immigrants. Many Americans during the first and second World War felt a sense of obligation to their country, it was this sense of obligation that drove people to participate in voluntary associations to aid the government in capturing enemy aliens. President Woodrow Wilson invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and “defined all male German citizens in the United States age fourteen and older as “enemy aliens.”” (Capozzola, Pg.177) Enemy aliens would face specific regulations including liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed. They would be forced to surrender any firearms, and weapons they own, they also were not allowed to live or travel within a half a mile of any “military installation”. Many organizations dedicated to German- American life closed shop during the war usually in fear of being seen as having multiply loyalties. The German language was removed from the schools’ curriculum along with German music being cut out of music books, even German dog breeds would be slaughtered in some states. There were four internment camps used to house these “enemy aliens” and the only visitors allowed to come to the camps were spouses, and a select group of ministers. “The Smith-Towner Bill introduced in October 1918, would create a department of education in Washington that would distribute

Back on the Rez The thing people automatically think about the reserve and the people living on the reserve is very hurtful. People need to stop saying these awful stereotypes about the reserve because if you have never been on or experienced what the reserve is like you should go around saying these stereotypes about it. These stereotypes that all natives that live on reserves do these stereotypes, that i'm going to talk about are definitely not true. The women play bingo and neglect their kids, this is one of the stereotypes that was said in the story.

During the years of post-9/11, Americans have started to become wary of non-Americans in their home land of the fear of another terrorist attacks. The 9/11 attacks have changed American views on the muslims and on the Middle East. It also had made security regulation more strict and discriminatory. Since post-9/11, Americans the wrong impression of the Middle East and have negative views of it and also have stereotype of it as well.

“Before you can cultivate a garden, you must know something about gardening.” This quote is from Margaret Sanger’s “The Children’s Era” speech given in 1925. Sanger believed that nurturing children is an art and has to be done properly in order for the children to be successful. In this illuminating speech, Margaret Sanger illustrated the lack of birth control options and overpopulation of unwanted children in order to persuade the people of New York, along with the Chairman, that it is time for a change when relating to women’s rights and children. Upon closer examination of this speech, Sanger used analogies, alliterations and focused on the children all while appealing to her knowledge along with the emotional and logical side to present her case about children being brought into the world unwanted, and that women should be in complete control of childbearing.

Wet Hot American Summer, a classic movie made in the early 2000s unveils many sociological genres throughout the movie. Some of the most profound topics include culture, social groups, sex and identity, stereotypes, and violation of social normalities. In the movie, it is very easy to acknowledge that these topics are either talked about, shown, or what you can generalize about the movie. First discussing culture, in the very beginning of the movie, the campers are in their bunks and you see tons of young girls crowding around a bathroom mirror putting on makeup so they can impress the boys at the camp. Another example is when the camp leader, Beth, asks one of the counselors, Katie, “how to be hot and impress someone.”

The “Double-Burden” Five Little Indians by Michelle Good is a novel about the lasting effects of residential schools. This important work is widely praised for raising awareness about the mistreatment of Indigenous people. Typically, narratives that focus on Indigenous characters and themes are viewed with a postcolonial lens; however, the story also emphasises the plight of Indigenous women and can be viewed through the lens of feminism. From the feminist perspective, the novel emphasises the struggles and triumphs of Indigenous women and the hardships they face navigating patriarchal institutions and norms. This is exemplified with the characters of Kenny, Lucy, and Clara as they struggle with the effects of internalised patriarchy, the hardships

The Braceros program involved bringing in migrant workers from Mexico to help industries and farms stay active and productive in the light of World War II. The workers stayed and some established families in the United States, for their children would be considered citizens of the United States. However, these workers and their families were pushed back into Mexico. The Braceros Program is one of the influences of immigration issues today. Many immigrants from Mexico stay and have children in the United States.

Before addressing the contemporary concerns surrounding immigration and undocumented immigrants, it is fundamental to address the historical antecedents to today’s widespread undocumented immigration population as well as the elicited political response carried out by the Reagan Administration during the 1980s. In the heart of the Cold War, the United States actively supported and funded the El Salvadorian government — a military government that ran death squads in opposition to anti-capitalist rebel forces. The Salvadorian government, as a means of subverting communism through violence, killed and displaced tremendous numbers of civilians. The Center for Justice and Accountability, an

On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II (Prange et al., 1981: p.174). On February 19, 1942, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 authorizing the Secretary of War and Military Commanders to prescribe areas of land as excludable military zones (Roosevelt, 1942). Effectively, this order sanctioned the identification, deportation, and internment of innocent Japanese Americans in War Relocation Camps across the western half of the United States. During the spring and summer of 1942, it is estimated that almost 120,000 Japanese Americans were relocated from their homes along the West Coast and in Hawaii and

To take an innocent family out of their homes against their will and make them pay for something they did not do, that is injustice being served. Those innocent families truly paid, with their time, children, and lives altogether. Their very own children could not discover the world and find their own destiny, and live their life. That is the very most important thing for a person to achieve throughout their lifetime, and America took that away from them. The historian Cary McWilliams notes “War makes for harsh measures, but we cannot justify the evacuation even as a war measure.” This statement proves that not only was it wrong for America to do this, but it was also very

“The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 sparked war with the United States and spread fear that Japanese Americans would aid Japan during World War II.” This is a quote from an article that shared both opinions on the Japanese American internment camps. The first This provoked fear in the American people, causing them to remove 110,000 Japanese Americans from the west coast of the United States and forcing them to live in internment camps. In my opinion I believe that it was a unconstitutional and racist action that the Americans took.

The Japanese-Americans, who for no reason other than having parents who were born in Japan or with Japanese last names, were taken from the main populace and placed into internment camps. According to Security and Liberty, in April, 1942, the Japanese-Americans were evacuated from their homes without trials or hearing because they were considered an enemy race. They were taking from households and were forced to live in imprisonment camps. “In 2010, Arizona enacted Senate Bill 1070, a wide-ranging law that sought to tighten the border and drive out unauthorized immigrants.” President Obama commented on this law stating that the law would boost racial profiling. This law opened the door for individuals, who were non Caucasian, to be unlawfully stopped, questioned, and had to provide proof that they were U.S citizens. “Police officers and government agencies were directed to check people's immigration status on the basis of "reasonable suspicion," and various violations of federal regulations, including a failure to carry proper immigration documents, became state crimes.” (Sanneh). The law had good intention, but the outcome was devastating because it promoted the law enforcements intentions on