Yellow Fever: the Internment
Through Asian performance art, multimedia and a blend of music and dance, this play travels through the history of the Japanese-American internment, racist ideologies and 1940s wartime hysteria.
The Asian Exclusion Act was the precursor that set the stage for the spread of Yellow Fever and anti-Asian racism. Around the period of World War II, these racist attitudes and stereotypes were created and perpetuated throughout the media. Of the 110,000 Japanese-American people to be interned after Pearl Harbor, not one was convicted of spying for Japan.
Yellow Fever: the Internment explores the mysteries behind the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and the stories that have been withheld from our collective consciousness.
