California's Japanese Language Schools: Dangerous and Un-American

Sacramento, 1922. 12pp. Minor toning and handling wear. Very good. A scarce twelve-panel brochure, based on a piece originally published in The Sacramento Bee on December 18, 1922.  The author, V.S. McClatchy argues that Japanese-language schools in California and Hawaii were set up to foster a separate Japanese identity and that the curriculum included Japanese government propaganda "not maintained to assist in Americanization."  Sadly, such pamphlets would foster the hostile environment that led to the Immigration Act of 1924, which effectively outlawed Japanese immigration and barred people of Asian descent from achieving American citizenship.