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Susan H. Kamei

Lecturer in History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Oversight

How Memories of Japanese American Imprisonment during WWII Guided the U.S. Response to 9/11

In the wake of 9/11, some called for rounding up whole groups of people viewed as potential threats to the nation. But Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta knew the U.S. had done that before.