What are you going to do about it?--Stay on the job until every murdering Jap is wiped out! – Historic Reproduction
![What are you going to do about it?--Stay on the job until every murdering Jap is wiped out!, [U.S. Army], 1944 (U.S. Government Printing Office) — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/10/10070d933b0f-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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What are you going to do about it?--Stay on the job until every murdering Jap is wiped out!
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Its title asks workers to "stay on the job" until the enemy is beaten, tying factory labor directly to the fighting in the Pacific. The wording uses a slur for Japanese people, and the Library of Congress catalogs the poster under ethnic stereotypes. Printed by the Government Printing Office in 1944, it reflects the wartime climate that followed the 1942 incarceration of Japanese Americans, when hostility toward Japan often spilled onto people of Japanese descent. It is a useful record of how war production campaigns could fuse patriotic appeals with dehumanizing language.
| Created / published | [U.S. Army], 1944 (U.S. Government Printing Office) |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1940-1950.Ethnic stereotypes 1940-1950.Prints American Color 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Title transcribed from item. Promotional goal: U.S. J71. 1944. U.S. Army official poster". I.S.D. no. 148." |
| Subjects | World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--American. World War, 1939-1945--Moral & ethical aspects. World War, 1939-1945--Military personnel--Japanese. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,283 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-190692 |
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