Impounded : Dorothea Lange and the censored images of Japanese American internment
(Book)

Bibliography (pages 201-203).

In the aftermath of the Pearl harbor attack of December 7, 1941, the government, journalists and media turned their anger inward and ratcheted up a racist fever against all Americans of Japanese ancestry branding them as dangerous potential spies and saboteurs. There were no charges or even allegations of disloyatly to the U.S. and two-thirds of them were American citizens. Nevertheless, they were detained without trial or even hearings, incarcerated in desolate locations, and housed in rough, cramped barracks surrounded by barbed wire. They lost education, farms, small businesses, professional careers and most of all their dignity.