Bringing the Marginalized into Conversations about American Raciality - Erin Kane - Keely Gaeta - Emily Norris

Filipino Bodies, Lynching, and the Language of Empire by Nerissa Balce

Historical and Contemporary Parallels

DETENTION CENTERS AT THE US-MEXICO BORDER

JAPANESE INTERNMENT

POST PEARL HARBOR REACTION 1942-1945 10 CAMPS THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, WYOMING, COLORADO, UTAH, AND ARKANSAS EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 FEBRUARY 19. 1942 CERTAIN AREAS BECAME MILITARY ZONES REMOVAL OF JAPANESE AMERICANS FROM THE WEST COAST AROUND 120,000 JAPANESE AMERICANS INTERNED

“REMAIN IN MEXICO” POLICY REQUIRES ASYLUM-SEEKERS TO REMAIN IN MEXICO WHILE THEIR CASES ARE BEING PROCESSED INHUMANE TREATMENT “JUSTIFIED” BY LEGALITY OF IMMIGRATION

LACK OF SPECIFICITY IN TERMS OF RACE / ETHNICITY THAT IS BEING TARGETED BUT THE TARGET IS UNDERSTOOD

RACISM AS A RESULT OF SOME SORT OF US NATIONALISMBLAME PLACED ON ENTIRE RACES / ETHNICITIES AS A RESULT OF ONE ACTION

ACTIONS SANCTIONED BY MANY / MOST SECTORS OF US SOCIETY

CENTERED AROUND SOME SORT OF EXCLUSION OR CONTAINMENT OF A SPECIFIC POPULATION

SANCTIONED BY VARIOUS PRESIDENTS IN THE US

PROMPT THE QUESTION OF A ‘MODEL IMMIGRANT’

ALL 3 ARE JUST A SMALL PART OF ANTI-IMMIGRATION POLICY / ACTIONS HTTPS://WWW.FREEDOMFORIMMIGRANTS.ORG/DETENTION-TIMELINE/ 

POLITICAL MOVES AS A PART OF FOREIGN DIPLOMACY / NEGOTIATION NECESSARY TO PROVE LOYALTY TO THE US

POST 9/11 REACTION EXECUTIVE ORDER 13769 - “PROTECTING THE NATION FROM FOREIGN TERRORIST ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES” JANUARY 27, 2017 - MARCH 6, 2017 TRAVEL BAN / MUSLIM BAN

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