Morning. Each week, american tv sits in on a lecture with one of the college professors. You can watch it. This week, we join professor ellen wu at Indiana University where she discusses japanese internment in the United States during world war ii. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. On tuesday, we begin our discussion on the japanese american internment camps by thinking about the ways which wars function as flash points for redefining the terms of membership or belonging in the american nation. In other words, wars are these critical moments when the nation rethinks who gets to be considered or treated as members or citizens of the National Community as well as who gets excluded. Right . These are really critical times. We saw in the frantic weeks of pearl harbor, president roosevelt, members of congress and ordinary people all came to the consensus japanese americans needed to be completely excluded or shut out of that National Community. Of course, we know this was based on the u
Morning. Each week, american tv sits in on a lecture with one of the college professors. You can watch it. This week, we join professor ellen wu at Indiana University where she discusses japanese internment in the United States during world war ii. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. On tuesday, we begin our discussion on the japanese american internment camps by thinking about the ways which wars function as flash points for redefining the terms of membership or belonging in the american nation. In other words, wars are these critical moments when the nation rethinks who gets to be considered or treated as members or citizens of the National Community as well as who gets excluded. Right . These are really critical times. We saw in the frantic weeks of pearl harbor, president roosevelt, members of congress and ordinary people all came to the consensus japanese americans needed to be completely excluded or shut out of that National Community. Of course, we know this was based on the u
Morning. Each week, american tv sits in on a lecture with one of the college professors. You can watch it. This week, we join professor ellen wu at Indiana University where she discusses japanese internment in the United States during world war ii. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. On tuesday, we begin our discussion on the japanese american internment camps by thinking about the ways which wars function as flash points for redefining the terms of membership or belonging in the american nation. In other words, wars are these critical moments when the nation rethinks who gets to be considered or treated as members or citizens of the National Community as well as who gets excluded. Right . These are really critical times. We saw in the frantic weeks of pearl harbor, president roosevelt, members of congress and ordinary people all came to the consensus japanese americans needed to be completely excluded or shut out of that National Community. Of course, we know this was based on the u