David Paul Nord

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David Paul Nord | On the Borderland of Ethnicity and Race: An Introduction | The Journal of American History, 86.4 | The History Cooperative

On the Borderland of Ethnicity
and Race: An Introduction

Internment. The history of Japanese Americans in the twentieth century is often summed up in a single word. But, of course, internment is not the whole story. Japanese American history neither begins nor ends on the arid plain of Manzanar. The story of internment vividly reveals the power of outsiders to shape the lives of people and to impose an identity upon them. But a narrow focus on internment can also obscure the power that Japanese American people have had to live their own lives and shape their own identities. . . .

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