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Eric Rauchway@rauchway.bsky.social |
Why did Roosevelt lose the support of Southern Democrats as the New Deal went on? Racism. Why did Roosevelt order the imprisonment of Japanese Americans on the West Coast?—racism—but not in Hawaii? a calibrated understanding of US racism
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Once they realized Nisei and Issei made up like 60% of the workforce in Hawaii, that idea was quickly shelved.
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Omar Wasow
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A partly instrumental racism as Japanese incarceration “was partially initiated by California agribusiness interests hoping to satisfy their own lust for land while ridding themselves of competition from state’s most productive family farms.” www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opin...
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