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Publication details [#26956]

Thiesmeyer, Lynn. 1995. The discourse of official violence: Anti-Japanese North American discourse and the American internment camps. Discourse & Society 6 (3) : 319–352.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | political language | racism

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This essay illustrates the origins of current anti-Japanese US and Canadian discourse by presenting an example of government violence and racism directed at the Japanese North American minority before and during the Second World War.