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Asian Americans and U.S. Law

Coping with A New "Yellow Peril": Japanese Immigration, the Gentlemen's Agreement, and the Coming of World War II (2015)

Paul Finkelman, 117 W. Va. L. Rev. 1409

Coping with A New "Yellow Peril": Japanese Immigration, the Gentlemen's Agreement, and the Coming of World War II (2015)

As background for the WWII cases, skim the introduction (Section I) and Sections VI-X on Japanese exclusion and segregation and its impact on foreign relations. (pp1409-1412, 1426-1459). 

 

Note: You may generally ignore the footnotes. You might also find the brief summary of the earlier history of immigration in the US from pre-Revolutionary times to the Chinese exclusion interesting.