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

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Topographies of Japanese Modernism

Book by Seiji M. Lippit; Columbia University Press, 2002

Subjects:

Japanese Fiction--Showa Period, 1926-1989--History And Criticism, Japanese Fiction--Taisho Period, 1912-1926--History And Criticism, Modernism (Literature)--Japan

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...depictions of Tokyo, the city here plays an important role in framing the narrator's descent into madness. The space through which he wanders is made up of multiple textual allusions, as a number of critics have pointed out. Yet rather than...
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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

...Izanami prior to her descent into the Land of Yomi. Izanagi gave...cruelty Sources of Japanese Tradition , I...Japan Sources of Japanese Tradition , I, 118, 110 . The spread of the Pure Land doctrine...imperial family claimed descent from the Sun Goddess...
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On the Laws of Japanese Painting: An Introduction to the Study of the Art of Japan

Book by Henry P. Bowie; Dover, 1951

Subjects:

Painting, Japanese

Collections: Entire Library

...schools RYUGI or HA or FU of Japanese painting have been formed and perpetuated...devoted, and I might say sacred efforts of their pupils, to preserve the methods...ago and has continued in uninterrupted descent from that remote time down to this forty-fourth...
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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

...definitely white, Negro, Indian, or Japanese. This had the effect, in New Mexico especially, of eliminating from this class...population of Spanish Colonial descent, most of whom consider themselves to be white Americans of Spanish, not Mexican, ancestry...
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Between Peasant and Urban Villager: Italian-Americans of New Jersey and New York, 1880-1980: the Structures of Counter-Discourse

Book by Michael J. Eula; Peter Lang, 1993

Subjects:

Italian Americans--Cultural Assimilation--New Jersey, Italian Americans--Cultural Assimilation--New York (State), Italian Americans--New Jersey--Ethnic Identity, Italian Americans--New York (State)--Ethnic Identity

Collections: History, Entire Library

...out that: In contrast to some ethnic groups like the Japanese Americans, it was somewhat surprising to find that Italian Americans...Generation level meaning parents and grandparents, of course, is used within the family, but the eldest generation...

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Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-49

Journal article by Martha Nakagawa; The Oral History Review, Vol. 32, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture Among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-49 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture Among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-49, goes beyond the camp experience...out of 126,947, or close to 75 percent of people of Japanese descent in the United States, lived in California in 1940...
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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

...ideal follows the enforced relocation of Japanese Americans by the United States government, a policy that...culture, lines that were deepened by the exclusion of all residents of Japanese descent from the western United States during World War...
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War Responsibility and Japanese Civilian Victims of Japanese Biological Warfare in China

Journal article by Mariko Asano Tamanoi; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 32, 2000

Subjects:

Asia

Collections: Entire Library

...have brought lawsuits against the Japanese government. Such victims are...among the "American" citizens of Chinese descent and the former members of the...war indemnities among Chinese-Americans), Senso Sekinin Kenkyu, no...
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Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century

Journal article by Stephanie Bangarth; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 36, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth...Seattle: University of Washington Press. Emil...people of Japanese descent in the Pacific Northwest...and the Incarceration of the Japanese Americans," Daniels argues very...
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Altered Lives, Enduring Community: Japanese Americans Remember Their World War II Incarceration

Journal article by Herb Thompson; Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 35, 2005

Subjects:

Altered Lives, Enduring Community: Japanese Americans Remember Their World War II Incarceration (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...to include "persons of African nativity or descent." However, the Act...deny citizenship to Japanese and other Asian immigrants...evident that Japanese Americans had a very tenuous...Harbour, the status of Japanese Americans changed from "alien...

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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

...Japanese have slaved to build. (The only substantial exception, some quarter of a million Latin Americans, are, or claim to be, of Japanese descent.) The equitable distribution of income still the most egalitarian the industrialized world has...
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A Precedent for Arab-Americans?

Magazine article by Jamin B. Raskin; The Nation, Vol. 252, February 4, 1991

Subjects:

Arab Americans--Laws, regulations and rules, Arabs in the United States--Laws, regulations and rules, Arabs--Laws, regulations and rules, Arabs--United States, DeWitt, John--Political activity, Japanese American internment, 1942-1945, Japanese Americans, Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, Palestinian Arabs in the United States--Laws, regulations and rules, Palestinian Arabs--Laws, regulations and rules, Palestinian Arabs--United States

Collections: Entire Library

...Precedent for Arab-Americans? by...National Museum of American History...exhibit on the Japanese internment...of Japanese descent, 70,000 of...of innocent Americans found themselves...single person of Japanese descent was accused...
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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

...peoples of Asian descent once here until...this common history of being considered...racial group: Asian Americans. Phase 2: Exclusion...mostly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos...Consequently, the majority of Asian Americans today have no family...
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Asian-Americans under Glass: Where the Furor over the President's Fundraising Has Gone Awry - and Racist

Magazine article by Phil Tajitsu Nash, Frank Wu; The Nation, Vol. 264, March 31, 1997

Subjects:

Asian Americans--Political activity, Campaign funds--Investigations, Huang, John--Investigations, Political campaigns--Finance

Collections: Entire Library

...The interrogation of Asian-Americans focused mainly on innocent people, of course. According to the D...Washington representative of the Japanese American Citizens League...problem to which people of Asian descent are almost genetically predisposed...
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RELIGION & THE MODERN NOVEL : What My Japanese Students Helped Me See

Magazine article by Mark Krupnick; Commonweal, Vol. 127, May 5, 2000

Subjects:

Brodie, Jean--Criticism, interpretation, etc., College teachers--Personal narratives, English literature--Study and teaching, McCarthy, Mary--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Religion and literature--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...difference between that Japanese attitude and my own...Preston, the wife of Marys maternal grandfather...the years of the descent of the anti-Vietnam...have tin ears. For Americans those moments often occur in the reading of literary texts containing...If, as with the Japanese students, you have...

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Japanese Latin Americans Seek Redress: U.S. Interned 2,200-Plus during WWII

Newspaper article by Takehiko Nomura; The Washington Times, September 27, 1996

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

...than 2,200 of these Latin Americans of Japanese descent were shipped to the United...acknowledges that Japanese Latin Americans were abducted and expelled...government in sending people of Japanese descent to the United States. Japanese...
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Catching Up with History, by Degree the UO Awards Diplomas to Japanese-Americans Forced to Leave in 1942

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), April 7, 2008

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

...an act that ignited intense prejudice against those of Japanese descent in the United States. Her familys store was already...1942, which sent Sumida and 120,000 other Japanese-Americans to internment camps across the West and South. Her...
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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

...local Latin Americans come for the...days since 24 Japanese hostages were...47-year-old Bolivian of Japanese descent. He has lived...3,500 Latin Americans of Japanese descent, including...more Latin Americans of Japanese descent started flowing...
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In the Trenches of the Language Wars

Newspaper article by Richard Grenier; The Washington Times, December 27, 1996

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

...Americans of German and Austrian descent than of English, Scots, and Welsh all together...as an English scholar has said, Americans are considered honorary Britons...of the Internet, with Spanish, Japanese, and German trailing behind, a...
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Red about Black and White

Newspaper article by Deborah Simmons; The Washington Times, January 26, 2001

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

...federal government rounded up Americans of Japanese descent and sent them to internment...knew they were of Japanese descent? The census identified states...with concentrated populations of Japanese Americans. Now you see where Im coming...

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Alien

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...areas, but the removal from their homes and internment in camps of Japanese on the West Coast applied to Americans of Japanese descent as well as to aliens. Population and economic pressures periodically cause host countries to become less...
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Mineta, Norman Yoshio

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...post, b. San Jose, Calif. Of Japanese descent, he and his family were...compensate to Japanese Americans interned during the war...government service as secretary of commerce, a post he held...months (until the end of President Clintons term...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, Korean, or Japanese origin; an additional 0.6% of the population had a mixed-race background...0.6% were of partial Native American descent. Roughly a third of Native Americans lived on reservations, trust lands, territories...
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South America

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...sizable populations of African descent in NE Brazil, French Guiana...Eastern, and Asian (especially Japanese) peoples to the continent...Brazil. With the exception of Brazil and Ecuador, the national...as a source of fuel. South Americans also have gradually developed...
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Great Britain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...participation in the campaign, and British forces joined the Americans in launching attacks against Afghanistan after the Taliban government...bin Laden . The Blair government was also a strong supporter of the United States position that military action should be taken...

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