Required Assignment #1 due on 10/27:

1. On your own and prior to coming to class, each person must read the following chapter in Elinson and Yogi as well as watch the following three videos:
   • Read Elinson and Yogi, Ch. 12, "Behind Barbed Wire: WWII Removal and Incarceration"
   • Watch Japanese Internment During WWII at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mr97qyKA2s
   • Watch A Challenge to Democracy at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgkNaK6fviA
   • Watch George Takai - Life in the Internment Camps at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpn3k8mxjqY
2. On your own and prior to coming to class, answer the following questions and turn in your typewritten responses - worth a total of 30 points:
   • In your opinion, should we refer to these camps as incarceration, relocation, or concentration camps? Use evidence from at least two sources to respond to this question.
   • What was the single most surprising thing you learned about the Japanese experience in the chapter by Elinson and Yogi? How and why was it so surprising?
   • Why do you think the Korematsu and Endo lawsuits - the case and its consequences - are so important for Americans to understand?
   • Who were the other "enemy aliens" of World War II and why don't we learn much about them?
   • Which of the three videos were most useful to increasing your understanding of the camps? Provide evidence from the video to explain how and why. Which was least useful? How and why?
   • What are the 3-5 most important points about the Japanese camps that you learned in all four sources?
3. When you come to class on 10/27, be prepared to share your answers in a class discussion. Be sure to turn in your assignment at the end of class.