SourceWatch:Student Editor Program - Asian Pacific Americans and American Public Policy (2007)

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Note: This is the homepage for the ongoing project of University of Maryland professor Phil Tajitsu Nash and his Asian Pacific Americans and American Public Policy class. If you are a student or professor interested in participating in Congresspedia, contact Congresspedia Editor Conor Kenny at Conoremail.png

Class goals

The goals for this class are to:

  1. Increasing knowledge and awareness of JLA (Japanese Latin American) issues and the debate around redress for Japanese Latin Americans;
  2. Understand the history of the movements for redress and reparations, in this country and overseas;
  3. Learn how to participate in a wiki, where information is publicly shared;
  4. Create a cluster of wiki pages on the Japanese Latin American redress issue on Congresspedia which can be used to facilitate understanding of the movement for redress for Japanese Latin Americans; and
  5. Understand the role of message development and issue framing in public policy work.

Topic pages

  1. Japanese American life under U.S. policies before and during World War II
  2. Japanese American life under U.S. policies after World War II
  3. Redress for Japanese Americans/ Court cases
  4. Redress for Japanese Americans/ U.S. legislation
  5. Japanese Latin American life under U.S. policies before and during World War II
  6. Japanese Latin American life under U.S. policies after World War II
  7. Redress for Japanese Latin Americans/ Court cases
  8. Redress for Japanese Latin Americans/ U.S. legislation
  9. Redress for Japanese Latin Americans/ Media, politics and community
  10. Redress for Japanese Latin Americans/ Comparisons with other redress and reparation efforts

Participants

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