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):

• Citizenship

• Otherness

• Migration and movement of bodies

• Education and assimilation

• Deserving/undeserving “poor”

• Physical detention and incarceration

• Economics and Labor

• Intersectionality (race, class, gender, sexuality, geography)

• Youth

 

Next, trace this theme through Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor was Divine and one primary source (scroll down) from categories below:

• Black American enslavement and separation

• First Nation boarding schools

• Current imprisonment and family separation

• Current immigrant family separation

 

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