Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Journal

The purpose of “White by Association: The Mixed Marriage Policy of Japanese American Internees” is to describe in detail theMixed Marriage Policy, implemented during World War II regarding the incarceration of Japanese Americans, and the reasonsfor its implementation. This policy allowed for specific multiracial Japanese Americans and those involved in mixed marriages withWhite males to exit the camps and return home to the West Coast if they could prove their lifestyles to be culturally Caucasian. This paper argues that the Mixed Marriage Policy was created in order to prevent White males from challenging the constitutionality of the Japanese American incarceration.