How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Thirty-nine Japanese worked at the Port Jefferson mill, but the census taker neglected to list them by name, referring instead to Jap Number 1, Jap Number 2, Jap Number 3, Japan Charlie, Old Jap Sam, Laughing Jap, Dwarf Jap, Chippy, Boots, and Stumpy—names of this sort instead of real names. (7.2)
Discussing the history of Japanese Americans in San Piedro, we get this charming tale of how particular workers were "identified." Sounds like a nice welcoming place... not.
Quote #8
With all the seriousness of a fortune-teller she predicted that white men would desire Hatsue and seek to destroy her virginity. She claimed that white men carried in their hearts a secret lust for pure young Japanese girls. Look at their magazines and moving pictures, Mrs. Shigemura said. Kimonos, sake, rice paper walls, coquettish and demure geishas. White men had their fantasies of a passionate Japan—girls of burnished skin and willowy long legs going barefoot in the wet heat of rice paddies—and this distorted their sex drives. (7.39)
When Hatsue is young, Mrs. Shigemura tells Hatsue that white men often get their jollies by exoticizing the Japanese, turning them into a stereotyped fantasy rather than really understanding or seeing them and their culture. For this reason, she warns Hatsue against hooking up with a white boy.
Quote #9
"First of all, you've got Horace's off-the-cuff statement regarding a coincidental resemblance between the would in Carl Heine's head and ones he saw inflicted by Japanese soldiers—now does that really point us toward Miyamoto? You've got Etta Heine, who I won't get into, but suffice it to say I don't trust that woman. She's hateful, Art; I don't trust her." (18.24)
This is Judge Fielding talking to Art Moran, who has just come to him for a warrant. Unlike a lot of the other people involved in this case, Fielding seems inclined to try to keep racist sentiments and biases out his life (and courtroom), so he's pretty hesitant to go after Kabuo Miyamoto on the basis of the circumstantial evidence that people like Etta Heine are offering.