Sources from Assignment #4

The sources from the readings are extremely useful. Many of the articles use a myriad of sources to support their claims. This is useful, because different sources are used to backup the same argument. There are few, if any sources that are from 2000 or later. Most of the sources are from the 1990s, and some fall back to the 70s and 80s. A wide variety of sources betters the argument, because perspectives from different time periods can be used.
These sources are used to illuminate how minority immigrants were able to cope with their new surroundings in the United States. The sources therefore often highlight how Los Angeles was a remarkable place of great diversity, but this led to conflict, racial tensions, and other problems. The two specific sources I chose were Racism in California: A reader in the history of oppression & Immigrants Out! The new nativism and the anti immigrant impulse in the United States. These sources reflect on how the Japanese Americans were usually treated as different than the typical American person; Even if they were born in the United States, they were from a different ethnic background, and this usually meant they were treated unfairly. It would have been better then for Japanese Americans then to assimilate into the typical American culture, because as history shows (Internment Camps), the Japanese were treated unfairly if they held close ties to their homeland. I can use these sources then as a way to support how difficult life was for Japanese immigrants in the 1940s because regardless, they were seen as different people that native born Americans.