Is the internment of immigrant children consistent with American values?
Short essay - 500 words
Instructions
Author an argumentative essay to analyze family separation in When the Emperor was Divine and one additional primary source to answer the question: Is the internment of immigrant children consistent with American values?
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Steps
Please select one theme (or identify your own):
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Citizenship
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Otherness
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Migration and movement of bodies
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Education and assimilation
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Deserving/undeserving “poor”
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Physical detention and incarceration
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Economics and Labor
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Intersectionality (race, class, gender, sexuality, geography)
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Youth
Next, trace this theme through Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor was Divine and one primary source (scroll down) from categories below:
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Black American enslavement and separation
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First Nation boarding schools
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Current imprisonment and family separation
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Current immigrant family separation
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Black American enslavement and separation
First Nations "Boarding Schools"
















Japanese American Internment












