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soryang

(3,299 posts) Fri Apr 10, 2020, 06:43 PM Apr 2020

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Jia Lynn Yang - One Mighty and Irresistible Tide

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Deputy National Editor
@nytimes

Interesting history of the patriotic role of Japanese Americans during the internment and later effort to reform racist immigration quotas.

When Asian-Americans Have to Prove We Belong
This isn’t the first time we’ve been treated as a threat.

By Jia Lynn Yang
Ms. Yang is the author of “One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965.”

April 10, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/sunday-review/coronavirus-asian-racism.html

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Jia Lynn Yang - One Mighty and Irresistible Tide (Original Post) soryang Apr 2020 OP

I think the Japanese-american battalion serving in Western Europe WWII was the most decorated. captain queeg Apr 2020 #1

captain queeg

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1. I think the Japanese-american battalion serving in Western Europe WWII was the most decorated.

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Fri Apr 10, 2020, 06:47 PM

Apr 2020

Of all.

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