According to the U.S. Constitution, all United States citizens are entitled to basic human rights. Yet, immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. government, shocked by the immediate danger to national security, turned a blind eye to due process and sent Japanese-Americans to internment camps. This set off a chain reaction of different …show more content…
Roger Daniels is a Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati, who has written and studied many different historic topics focusing on immigration. He was a past president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, as well as the Immigration History Society. Daniels has an expertise in the subject of Japanese American Internment due to his experience serving as a consultant to the Presidential Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Daniels argues the point of how the effect of Japanese Internment on the country, and how the Executive Order 9066 passed by President Roosevelt, whether justified or not, turned out to change the country and its view points on the civil rights of Japanese Americans. He recognizes how Congress and President Carter apologized to Japanese Americans as well as offering a $20,000 tax-free payment to sixty-thousand Japanese American survivors. It was a pivotal moment for the United States, recognizes their actions were wartime wrongdoings. Daniels explains out how due to the actions of the civil rights movement, the United States realizes …show more content…
While teaching these studies, Shaffer’s articles focus on the incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II. These articles have appeared in journals such as The Historian, Radical History Review, and Journal of American History. His expertise in the issue of Japanese internment relates to his doctoral dissertation, which focused on relations between the United States and Asia in the mid-twentieth century, reviewed through analyzing a novelist and her political associates. Shaffer argues that Japanese Internment was not justified because of its development from anti-Japanese racism. He uses multiple examples of those who argued to try and defend the rights of those interned. Most of those who went against the policy were socialists, pacifists, and some missionaries returning from Japan, who did not influence a lot in numbers of their beliefs that the internment was wrong, but helped maintain the spirit of the community. Shaffer’s opinion on the internment centers around how the act of interning American citizens discriminated against by the state and federal