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A clear and candid account of one of the worst failures of civil rights in our nation's history, this book focuses on the four Supreme Court cases involving Japanese Americans who were forcibly detained and relocated to internment camps in the early months of World War II.

This classic study offers a history of anti-Japanese prejudice in California, extending from the late nineteenth century to 1924, when an immigration act excluded Japanese from entering the United States. The Politics of Prejudice details the political climate that helped to set the stage for the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and reveals the racism present among middle-class American progressives, labor leaders, and other presu