americans of japanese ancestry - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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Images of Japanese Women: A Westerner's View

Book by Bettina Liebowitz Knapp; Whitston Press, 1992

Subjects:

Japan--Social Life And Customs, Women Authors, Japanese, Women In Literature--Japan--History, Women--Japan--History

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

Images of Japanese Women -ii- Images of Japanese Women: A Westerners View by Bettina L. Knapp The Whitston...esoteric, positive and even powerful. Women from different times of Japanese history are given flesh and blood by the authors passionate...
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Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service

Book by Evelyn Nakano Glenn; Temple University Press, 1986

Subjects:

Japanese American Women--California--Social Conditions, Women Domestics--California--History

Collections: Entire Library

...whose low standard of living and high fertility threatened the survival of white Americans. The wartime evacuation and incarceration of all people of Japanese ancestry culminated a half-century of organized and unorganized anti-Japanese sentiment...
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The Spanish-Americans of New Mexico: A Heritage of Pride

Book by Nancie L. González; University of New Mexico Press, 1969

Subjects:

Mexican Americans--New Mexico, Mexicans--New Mexico

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Indian, or Japanese. This had...especially, of eliminating...be white Americans of Spanish, not Mexican, ancestry. More objectively...the Spanish-Americans of New Mexico...of Indian ancestry." Walter...Indians, Japanese, Chinese...Persons of Mexican birth or ancestry who are not...
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Dimensions of Japanese Society: Gender, Margins and Mainstream

Book by Kenneth G. Henshall; Macmillan, 1999

Subjects:

Japan--Social Conditions--1945-, Marginality, Social--Japan, Minorities--Japan, Sex Role--Japan, Social Values--Japan

Collections: Entire Library

Japan remains one of the most intriguing yet least understood nations. This balanced and comprehensive analysis includes among its revelations that the Japanese are driven not by a morality based on good and evil, but by what is pure and impure.
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Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life

Book by Lafcadio Hearn; Gay and Bird, 1908

Subjects:

Folklore--Japan, Japan--Social Life And Customs

Collections: History, Entire Library

...mobility of a European population and the Japanese population might be expressed by a comparison between certain high velocities of vibration and certain low ones. But the...indications could announce. In one sense, Americans may be right in thinking themselves great...

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Religious Organizations and the "Relocation" of Persons of Japanese Ancestry in North America: Evaluating Advocacy

Journal article by Stephanie D. Bangarth; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 34, 2004

Subjects:

Japanese Americans--History, United States history--Research

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...relocation of persons of Japanese ancestry during World...belief that few Americans or Canadians...the Japanese Americans and their families...the motivations of the American...of persons of Japanese ancestry. In comparison...
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Alice Yang Murray, Ed. What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean?

Journal article by Eileen H. Tamura; Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, Vol. 28, 2003

Subjects:

What did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? (Book)

Collections: History, Education, Entire Library

...affirm the constitutionality of internment? Why did U.S. officials intern people of Japanese ancestry from Central and South America? How did some Japanese Americans resist internment? What was the impact of internment on Japanese American families...
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Erica Harth, Ed. Last Witness: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans

Journal article by Robert C. Sims; Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, Vol. 30, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Last Witness: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Education, Entire Library

...Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. Pp. 303. Paper...with Pearl Harbor and its aftermath, when all persons of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast of the United States were...
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"They Are Our Human Secret Weapons": The Military Intelligence Service and the Role of Japanese-Americans in the Pacific War and in the Occupation of Japan (1)

Journal article by Kelli Y. Nakamura; The Historian, Vol. 70, 2008

Subjects:

Japanese Americans--History, Japanese Americans--Influence, Japanese Americans--Military aspects, Military intelligence--History, Military intelligence--Usage, Pacific Campaign, 1941-1945

Collections: History, Entire Library

...their dual identity as Americans of Japanese ancestry fighting for a government...n.p., 1999), 78. (5.) Americans of Japanese ancestry and their contributions...was to halt the draft of Americans of Japanese ancestry and to discharge those...
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Noguchi, Sculptural Abstraction, and the Politics of Japanese American Internment

Journal article by Amy Lyford; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 85, 2003

Subjects:

Kouros (Sculpture)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Noguchi, Isamu--Works, Sculptors--Works, Sculpture--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sculpture--Exhibitions, Sculpture--History

Collections: Entire Library

...Fourteen Americans, Thomas Hess (editor of Art News...father was Japanese, and his...American ancestry). (9) That...Japanese Americans endured during...Kouros speaks of the risk...residents of Japanese ancestry were relocated...

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Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-1949

Magazine article by Lane R. Hirabayashi; California History, Vol. 80, Spring 2001

Subjects:

Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture Among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-1949 (Book)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...journalists played an active role in the generational task of conceptualizing and negotiating their identity as Americans of Japanese ancestry. Through an analysis of the extended life histories collected in Chicago by the late Charles Kikuchi for...
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The Social Contradictions of Japanese Capitalism

Magazine article by Murray Sayle; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 281, June 1998

Subjects:

Depressions--Social aspects, Economic depressions--Social aspects, Japan--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Japan. The ideal scapegoat, however, is someone who doesnt really belong to the Japanese family. Shokei Arai, the politician who hanged himself, was of Korean ancestry and had moved through several reform parties before rejoining the ruling Liberal...
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Letter from Egypt: "There Is a Question," Our Correspondent Writes, "That Less-Sophisticated Americans Ask (and More-Sophisticated Americans Would like To): Why Are People in the Middle East So Crazy? Here, at the Pyramids, Was an Answer from the Earliest Days of Civilization: People Have Always Been Crazy."

Magazine article by P.J. O'Rourke; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, September 2002

Subjects:

Americans--Behavior, Egypt, Egyptians--Behavior, Historic sites, International relations--Media coverage, Israelis--Political activity, Middle East--Politics and government, Muslims--Behavior, Palestinian Arabs--Political activity

Collections: Entire Library

...war between Egypt and Israel. Americans in my parents generation were...useless. Egypt is the cradle of tourism. Herodotus was a tourist...some Europeans, a couple of Japanese, and a scattering of doughty...recount the attributes, the ancestry, and the avatars of every mythological...
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Crossing Race and Nationality: The Racial Formation of Asian Americans, 1852-1965

Magazine article by Bob Wing; Monthly Review, Vol. 57, December 2005

Subjects:

Asian American culture--History, Asian American culture--Influence, Asian Americans--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Asian Americans--History, Asian Americans--Influence, Cultural identity, Race relations, Racial attitudes

Collections: Entire Library

...entry. Despite the rising power of the Japanese in the Pacific, Japanese nationals...million in 1965--mostly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos--to something...today. Consequently, the majority of Asian Americans today have no family connection...
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Methodists Decry Japanese Stance on 'Comfort Women'

Magazine article; The Christian Century, Vol. 124, April 3, 2007

Subjects:

Japan (World War II)--History, Methodists--Political activity, Methodists--Religious aspects, Religious institutions--Political activity, Religious organizations--Political activity, Sexual abuse--Cases, Women--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...including those with Japanese ancestry, are strongly criticizing recent denials by the prime minister of Japan regarding that countrys...to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers. About 200,000 women...Japanese citizens and Japanese Americans. "As a Nisei in the U.S. during...

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Japanese Ancestry Provides Little Help: Latins Report Cultural Bias in 'Homeland'

Newspaper article by Takehiko Nomura; The Washington Times, May 16, 1997

Subjects:

Japan

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Japanese ancestry provides little...local Latin Americans come for the...days since 24 Japanese hostages were...47-year-old Bolivian of Japanese descent...500 Latin Americans of Japanese descent, including...more Latin Americans of Japanese descent started...
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Japanese-Americans Deserve Recognition

Newspaper article by John Fales; The Washington Times, July 29, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...call went out for Americans of Japanese ancestry to volunteer for service...themselves just plain Americans. . . . They have...as I am." The men of the 100th had proved...U.S. soldiers of Japanese ancestry was beyond question...
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Hoping to Not Repeat History Japanese-Americans Held at Internment Camps during WWII Speak Out

Newspaper article by Jean Murphy; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 21, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...thousands of Japanese-Americans living in California...that all 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry living in the three...the coming relocation, Japanese-Americans began holding "relocation sales" of their furniture, land...
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EU Bunglers Get No Vote of Yanks; TRANSATLANTIC CALL: Americans Know Major's Time Is Up

Newspaper article by Gordon Brown; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), February 20, 1997

Subjects:

Major, John, United Kingdom

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...The popular view is that Americans are not interested about what...But they seem all too aware of the divisions and disasters...that American companies - like Japanese firms such as Toyota - are...and Britain and the ties of ancestry, language and culture will...
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Government to Settle with Interned Japanese

Newspaper article by Jerry Seper; The Washington Times, June 13, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...compensate Latin Americans of Japanese ancestry for their wrongful...residents of Japanese ancestry," he said. Mr...Civil Liberties Act of 1988, the United...injustice endured by Japanese Latin Americans who were interned...

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Relocation Center

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Japanese and Japanese-Americans were interned during...War II. Fearing a Japanese invasion, the military...under authority of an executive order...persons of Japanese ancestry were to be excluded...granted the surviving Japanese-American internees a tax-free payment of $20,000 each and...

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