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Days of Infamy: How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment
Lawrence Goldstone
Ages: 14+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Scholastic Focus/Scholastic
ISBN: 978-1-338-72246-8
Keywords: prejudice, racism, law, malfeasance, immigration, international relations, unions, labor, Japanese Americans, Supreme Court, Constitution - U.S., Executive Order 9066, white protectionism.
An accessible history of decades of anti-Asian American legislation and policies, leading to the incarceration in the United States of over 110,000 people of Japanese descent during World War II. Sources, notes, archival photographs, maps.