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In
the summer of 2001, all over Los Angeles (and across
the U.S.), billboards and posters advertised the war
movie... Pearl Harbor. The noxious ad campaign almost
had people believing that America was going to war with
Japan again. The bold headlines of the militaristic
posters shouted out; Man the Guns, Join the Fight.
The
movie posters were designed to look exactly like the
U.S. WW2 propaganda posters of the time... posters meant
to drum up support for the war against Japan. Some of
those works were explicitly racist in their appeal,
but all of them helped to create an anti-Japanese atmosphere
that lead to the internment of Japanese Americans in
concentration camps.
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