by Alfondo Guerriero Jr

Recently a student and I were having a discussion about Pearl Harbor and the detrimental impact it had on the Japanese American population. From our conversation I realized the student was unaware of how Italians were also mistreated and classified as "enemy aliens" by the United States government from 1941 to 1943. As I explained this overlooked part of US history, the student appeared perplexed and asked, "Are you sure there were Italian American internment camps. I mean I never read anything about this in middle school or high school, and nothing has been mentioned in college."

Our conversation brought me back to my own middle school and high school history classes and later, since I majored in US history, I thought none of my undergraduate instructors told me about how Italian immigrants and Italian Americans were treated after the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred in December 1941.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano