---
title: '"Our New Racial Problem: Japanese Immigration and Its Menace" (Sacramento Bee pamphlet, November 1920)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sacramento-bee-our-new-racial-problem-1920/
description: Pamphlet cover from a California newspaper that sets the words "Menace", "Startling Results of Congressional Inquiry" and "Peaceful Penetration" above a…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** 1920 anti-Japanese pamphlet cover calling Japanese immigrants a 'menace' and a racial problem. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# "Our New Racial Problem: Japanese Immigration and Its Menace" (Sacramento Bee pamphlet, November 1920)

Pamphlet cover from a California newspaper that sets the words "Menace", "Startling Results of Congressional Inquiry" and "Peaceful Penetration" above a list of charges: use of citizenship, "the birth rate as an agency for colonization", control of land. The congressional hearing is borrowed as authority for the paper's own case.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Our New Racial Problem

Japanese Immigration
and Its Menace .....

Startling Results of Congressional Inquiry

Why Japan's "Peaceful Penetration" of Continental United States? — Using American Citizenship to Foster Japan's Plans — The Birth Rate as an Agency for Colonization — Control of Lands and Localities in California — Colonization in Other States.

F-LIBRARY EDITION --- NOV. 1920
—Published by The Sacramento Bee

[library pencil marks at top, not transcribed: "308", "Z Box 126", one further mark illegible]
```

Read from the Internet Archive page image of the cover (page n2 of the microfilm scan).

[← Guest of Damascus: General Gouraud (Al-Muqtabas front page, 25 October 1920)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/al-muqtabas-guest-of-damascus-gouraud-1920/) [Bielschowitz 1-Mark plebiscite note: "Mörderbuben und Banditen" (Upper Silesia, 1921) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bielschowitz-plebiscite-notgeld-1921/)

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