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Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934-1990 » Read Now
by Lon Kurashige. 274 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and cultures? In exploring the Japanese American experience, Lon Kurashige recasts this tangled debate by examining what assimilation and ethnic retention have meant to a...
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Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and cultures? In exploring the Japanese American experience, Lon Kurashige recasts this tangled debate by examining what assimilation and ethnic retention have meant to a particular community over a long period of time. This is an inner history, in which the group identity of one of America's most noteworthy racial minorities takes shape. From the 1930s, when Japanese immigrants controlled sizable ethnic enclaves, to the tragic wartime internment and postwar decades punctuated by dramatic class mobility, racial protest, and the influx of economic investment from Japan, the story is fraught with conflict.
The narrative centers on Nisei Week in Los Angeles, the largest annual Japanese celebration in the United States. The celebration is a critical site of political conflict, and the ways it has changed over the years reflect the ongoing competition over what it has meant to be Japanese American. Kurashige reveals, subtly and with attention to gender issues, the tensions that emerged at different moments, not only between those who emphasized Japanese ethnicity and those who stressed American orientation, but also between generations and classes in this complex community.
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Breaking the Silence: Redress and Japanese American Ethnicity » Read Now
by Yasuko I. Takezawa. 236 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Japanese American Ethnicity: The Persistence of Community » Read Now
by Stephen S. Fugita, David J. O'Brien. 197 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...ISBN 0-295-97053-7 alk. paper I. Japanese Americans Social life and customs. 2. Japanese Americans Ethnic identity. I. OBrien, David...Structure of Social Relationships...
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Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 » Read Now
by Leslie T. Hatamiya. 262 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Righting a Wrong Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil...studies. Righting a Wrong Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil...by the U.S. internment of...
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Transforming the Past: Tradition and Kinship among Japanese Americans » Read Now
by Sylvia Junko Yanagisako. 289 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Tradition and Kinship Among Japanese Americans SYLVIA JUNKO YANAGISAKO...TRADITION AND KINSHIP AMONG JAPANESE AMERICANS Stanford University Press...book Preface A BOOK...
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Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850 » Read Now
by Roger Daniels. 390 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Chinese American--History. 3. Japanese Americans--History. I. Title E184.06D36...1880-1940 90 4.1 Japanese Americans in the Contiguous United States...4.2 Sex Ratio of...
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Japanese Legacy: Farming and Community Life in California's Santa Clara Valley » Read Now
by Timothy J. Lukes, Gary Y. Okihiro. 162 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...141 Includes index. 1. Japanese Americans -- California -- Santa Clara...community, and the return of Japanese Americans to the valley Sakauye encouraged...on the...
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Growing Up a Japanese Boy in Sacramento County, in Social Justice » Read Now
by Gregory Shank. 15 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...few persons would even think of answering: "the Japanese Americans." Yet, if the question refers to persons alive...Association of America. Petersen, William 1971 Japanese...
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Religion and Economics among Japanese Americans: A Weberian Study, in Social Forces » Read Now
by Eric Woodrum. 14 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Religion and Economics Among Japanese Americans: A Weberian Study...The immigrant generation of Japanese Americans is studied using JARP data...education for these data...
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Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II » Read Now
by Gary Y. Okihiro. 249 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Serving Our Country: Japanese American Women in the Military during World War II » Read Now
by Brenda L. Moore. 211 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Documents the life histories of Japanese American women who served in WWII.
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Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945 » Read Now
by Gary Y. Okihiro. 330 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...0-87722-799-3 alk. paper 1. Japanese Americans -- Hawaii -- Social conditions. 2. Japanese Americans -- Hawaii -- Economic conditions...liberate themselves, both Japanese...
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Racism, Dissent, and Asian Americans from 1850 to the Present: A Documentary History (Part VI "Relocation and Protest") » Read Now
by Philip S. Foner, Daniel Rosenberg. 312 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Drawing from a broad range of articles, speeches, pamphlets, sermons, debates, laws, and resolutions, this documentary collection focuses on support for the rights of Japanese and Chinese immigrants and their descendants in the United States. The book traces a 130-year period, culminating with the...
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Drawing from a broad range of articles, speeches, pamphlets, sermons, debates, laws, and resolutions, this documentary collection focuses on support for the rights of Japanese and Chinese immigrants and their descendants in the United States. The book traces a 130-year period, culminating with the governmental redress for survivors of the Japanese evacuation and internment of World War II. Illustrating the scope and types of American dissent against anti-Asian thought, the volume highlights expressions from the clergy, the labor movement, the abolitionists, and figures such as Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, John Stuart Mill, and Carey McWilliams. Citing material never before published, it demonstrates Black support for Asian rights and the consistency of the IWW's solidarity with Chinese and Japanese-American workers. It is also the first work to treat seriously clergymen's efforts against anti-Asian discrimination.
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The Japanese in America (1926) » Read Now
by Charles Lanman. 609 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...THE JAPANESE STUDENTS 55...THE PRACTICAL AMERICANS Enouye . 67...cherished between the Americans and Japanese. Some of the essays...strange, and the Americans who come in...
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Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America » Read Now
by Eiichiro Azuma. 306 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library