The Internment of the Japanese  book by Diane Yancey, 2001
(Note: as I have done with some other books I have only noted
things in this book that are either not in other books or are
presented in a particularly interesting manner. This book is, as
are many others like it, very well done and absolutely filled
with information.)  The book opens up with a nice statement
about what happened: "The internment of the Japanese stands as
an example of what happens in a democracy when racism is
unchecked and mass hysteria replaces calm and rational
thinking."  The book examines the influx of Chinese into the
U.S. to work in mines and on railroads and the type of prejudice
this led to, then notes that Japanese who came to this country
ended up facing exactly the same type of prejudice. As early as
1905 an Asiatic Exclusion League was formed in San Francisco by
businessmen who wanted Japanese immigration ended.  The term
"yellow peril" was coined to describe the fear of the Japanese
and of their settling in the U.S. Fro