"Jap Evacuation -- Two-year-old Keith Miyamoto" -- caption on photograph
1 media/75-1629-thumb.jpg 2020-10-20T14:56:30-07:00 Curtis Fletcher 3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673e 38151 2 "Jap Evacuation -- Two-year-old Keith Miyamoto seems undismayed as he happily waves to photographer while surrounded by piles of luggage prior to boarding a bus which transported him and some 700 other Japanese from vital defense areas of San Francisco to the Owens Valley Reception Center at Manzanar today. Leaving both by bus and by train, the aliens were for the most part cleared from the waterfront areas of this coastal city." -- caption on photograph. plain 2020-12-03T08:36:14-08:00 USC Digital Library Curtis Fletcher 3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673eThis page is referenced by:
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“Jap Evacuation—Two-year-old Keith Miyamoto,” April 6, 1942
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In this image we see a two-year-old Japanese-American boy surrounded by bags and luggage waiting to board a bus that is going to take him to a Japanese internment camp in San Francisco.
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In this image we see a two-year-old Japanese-American boy surrounded by bags and luggage waiting to board a bus that is going to take him to a Japanese internment camp in San Francisco. This image portrays the incarceration of Japanese citizens in America during World War II. Furthermore, this image focuses on the way that immigrants or even American-born people with immigrant roots have been treated. What makes this image significant is the joy and innocence of this little boy and how he represented the innocence of all the people of Japanese heritage who were sent to internment camps. No matter who an individual was, as long as they were of Japanese descent, one faced the possibility of being forcibly removed and transported to an internment camp. The large amounts of baggage in the photo represents the magnitude of possessions and the weight of the livelihoods that had to be moved for relocation to these camps. Japanese people were viewed as threats and aliens to the country because of the anti-imperialist state of World War II. Threatened by the prospect of Japan as a growing global force, such actions were taken to limit their power. Tragic events such as riots, poor sanitary conditions, and beatings took place in these camps. These events were able to become commonplace because Japanese-Americans were judged based on their foreign nationality. Immigrants in the United States have encountered patterns of discrimination thoroughly based in racism because acts such as Japanese internment are closely connected with the history of our country. This image is a representation of how immigrants or minorities have been treated in our country, regardless of birthplace.
