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internment, Japanese

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Manzanar street scene, winter, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams (Library of Congress)
Manzanar street scene, winter 1943, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams (Library of Congress)

During World War II, the incarceration of 120,000 men, women and children of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of them U.S. citizens. They were ordered to sell their homes and businesses, usually at a steep discount, to whites and then move to “relocation centers.” The last internees were released in 1946. Some advocates urge the use of “incarceration” instead of internment as a more accurate depiction.

For more information about Japanese American incarceration, see the website of the Japanese American National Museum.

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REFERENCE: AAJA Handbook to Covering Asian America

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