Spring 2015
Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony, 1897-1945
Jerry García ’99 PhD
The University of Arizona Press, 2014
Eizi Matuda and his wife Miduho Kaneko de Matuda were Japanese immigrants who had become Mexican citizens and had lived there for 20 years when agents of the Mexican government came to their home to relocate them. However, unlike thousands of Japanese Americans and some Japanese Mexicans who were relocated during World War II, the Matudas were not forced to move. Instead, local Chiapas leaders vouched for their … » More …