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1	Nativism and the decline in civil liberties: reactions of white America toward the Japanese immigrants, 1885-1945 O'Neal, Jonathon P. January 2009 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This thesis concentrates on how nativism, through a series of discriminatory policies over the span of fifty years, influenced the creation of the Japanese American internment camps during the Second World War. By using the experiences of the first—and second—generations of Japanese immigrants, my thesis explores how nativism supported the creation of laws meant to preserve racial homogeneity, cultural superiority, economic segregation, and national security from the Japanese immigrants living in California during the end of the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century California Alien Land Laws Japanese Internment Civil Liberties Nationalism Nativism Japanese Immigration Civil rights Nationalism -- United States Nativism Segregation -- California Immigrants -- California Japanese -- Foreign countries