Unnamed Interned Japanese Americans
Character Key Number:
3168
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Unnamed Interned Japanese Americans
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Unnamed Interned Japanese Americans
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
As noted in Requiem for a Nun, during World War II the U.S. government interned over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry (two-thirds of them US citizens) as "enemy aliens" (194). Most of these people had been living on the west coast, and all the interment camps they were taken to were west of the Mississippi.