Concept information
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population groups
continental population groups
Asian continental ancestry group
Asian Americans
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population groups
continental population groups
Asian continental ancestry group
Asian Americans
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population groups
continental population groups
Asian continental ancestry group
Asian Americans
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population groups
continental population groups
Asian continental ancestry group
Asian Americans
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sociology
sociology of education
education and social inequality: race and ethnicity
Asian Americans
Preferred term
Japanese internment camps
Definition
- The Japanese American Internment began on December 7, 1941, and ended in March of 1946. During the internment, roughly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, of which 70,000 were U.S. citizens by birth, spent much of the war detained in various government-run facilities. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Japanese Internment Camps]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Japanese_internment_camps
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