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Being Japanese American
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Author : Gil Asakawa
language : en
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Release Date : 2015-08-17
Being Japanese American written by Gil Asakawa and has been published by Stone Bridge Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-17 with Social Science categories.
This entertaining compendium is a celebration of Japanese American history and heritage. While detailing favorite foods, customs, words, games, and holidays, it explores the painful history of immigration and WWII internment, with suggestions for connecting to your Japanese American community and passing on traditions across generations and into intermarried families. This revised edition has fresh interviews with Japanese Americans about their life experiences and explores contemporary Japanese pop culture like anime and J-pop, with information on traveling to visit your Japanese roots and lists of resources on the Web and social media. Gil Asakawa lives in Denver, Colorado, and is a nationally known journalist, editor, author, speaker, and blogger focusing on Japanese and Asian American issues.
Being Japanese American
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Author : Gil Asakawa
language : en
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
Release Date : 2015
Being Japanese American written by Gil Asakawa and has been published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Social Science categories.
A celebration of JA culture: facts, recipes, songs, words, and memories that every JA will want to share.
Japanese American Ethnicity
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Author : Stephen S. Fugita
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2011-10-01
Japanese American Ethnicity written by Stephen S. Fugita and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with Social Science categories.
Why do some groups retain their ethnicity as they become assimilated into mainstream American life while others do not? This study employs both historical sources and contemporary survey data to explain the seeming paradox of why Japanese Americans have maintained high levels of ethnic community involvement while becoming structurally assimilated. Most traditional approaches to the study of ethnicity in the United States are based on the European immigrant experience and conclude that a zero-sum relationship exists between assimilation and retention of ethnicity: community solidarity weakens as structural assimilation grows stronger. Japanese Americans, however, like American Jews, do not fit this pattern. The basic thesis of this book is that the maintenance of ethnic community solidarity, the process of assimilation, and the reactions of an ethnic group to outside forces must be understood in light of the internal social organization of the ethnic group, which can be traced to core cultural orientations that predate immigration. Though frequently excluded from mainstream economic opportunities, Japanese Americans were able to form quasi-kin relationships of trust, upon which enduring group economic relations could be based. The resultant ethnic economy and petit bourgeois family experience fostered the values of hard work, deferred gratification, and other perspectives conductive to success in mainstream society. This book will be of interest to sociologist and psychologist studying ethnicity, community organization, and intergenerational change; and to anyone interested in the Japanese American experience from an economic or political perspective, Asian American studies, or social history of the United States.
The Japanese American Experience
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Author : David J. O'Brien
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
The Japanese American Experience written by David J. O'Brien and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
"Slim, well-researched, and readable, this is not only a social history of an ethnic community but a gateway into the ancient psyche of the Japanese."A -- The San Francisco Review of Books ..". straightforward... informative... " -- Contemporary Sociology "The Japanese American Experience... will be used with profit by professors and students in sociology and ethnic studies courses, for it is the best general text on Japanese Americans currently in print." -- The Journal of American History ..". a succinct and insightful account of the community's early struggle for survival in a racist society... " -- American Historical Review This concise history of three generations of Japanese Americans focuses on their collective response to the challenges of discrimination and to the strikingly different historical circumstances each generation has faced.
Out Of The Frying Pan
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Author : Bill Hosokawa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Out Of The Frying Pan written by Bill Hosokawa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Through vividly recollected personal experiences, the author provides an account of how the U.S. government ignored the Constitution and rounded up innocent people, locking them up solely on the basis of race. He describes how he, his wife, their infant child, and tens of thousands of other Japanese Americans were herded into U.S. detention camps during World War II despite being American citizens guilty of no crime. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Japanese American Millennials
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Author : Michael Omi
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-25
Japanese American Millennials written by Michael Omi and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-25 with Social Science categories.
Whereas most scholarship on Japanese Americans looks at historical case studies or the 1.5 generation assimilating, this pioneering anthology, Japanese American Millennials, captures theexperiences, perspectives, and aspirations of Asian Americans born between 1980 and 2000. The editors and contributors present multiple perspectives on who Japanese Americans are, how they think about notions of community and culture, and how they engage and negotiate multiple social identities. The essays by scholars both in the United States and Japan draw upon the Japanese American millennial experience to examine how they find self-expression in Youth Basketball Leagues or Christian youth camps as well as how they grapple with being mixed-race, bicultural, or queer. Featuring compelling interviews and observations, Japanese American Millennials dislodges the dominant generational framework toaddress absences in the current literature and suggests how we might alternatively study Japanese Americans as a whole.
My Life Between Japan And America
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Author : Edwin Oldfather Reischauer
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1986
My Life Between Japan And America written by Edwin Oldfather Reischauer and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Japanese American Ethnicity
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Author : Takeyuki Tsuda
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Japanese American Ethnicity written by Takeyuki Tsuda and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Children of immigrants categories.
As one of the oldest groups of Asian Americans in the United States, most Japanese Americans are culturally assimilated and well-integrated in mainstream American society. However, they continue to be racialised as culturally 'Japanese' foreigners simply because of their Asian appearance in a multicultural America where racial minorities are expected to remain ethnically distinct. Different generations of Japanese Americans have responded to such pressures in ways that range from demands that their racial citizenship as bona fide Americans be recognised to a desire to maintain or recover their ethnic heritage and reconnect with their ancestral homeland. Takeyuki Tsuda explores the contemporary ethnic experiences of Japanese Americans from the second to the fourth generations and the extent to which they remain connected to their ancestral cultural heritage.
Relocating Authority
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Author : Mira Shimabukuro
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2016-01-15
Relocating Authority written by Mira Shimabukuro and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Relocating Authority examines the ways Japanese Americans have continually used writing to respond to the circumstances of their community’s mass imprisonment during World War II. Using both Nikkei cultural frameworks and community-specific history for methodological inspiration and guidance, Mira Shimabukuro shows how writing was used privately and publicly to individually survive and collectively resist the conditions of incarceration. Examining a wide range of diverse texts and literacy practices such as diary entries, note-taking, manifestos, and multiple drafts of single documents, Relocating Authority draws upon community archives, visual histories, and Asian American history and theory to reveal the ways writing has served as a critical tool for incarcerees and their descendants. Incarcerees not only used writing to redress the “internment” in the moment but also created pieces of text that enabled and inspired further redress long after the camps had closed. Relocating Authority highlights literacy’s enduring potential to participate in social change and assist an imprisoned people in relocating authority away from their captors and back to their community and themselves. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of ethnic and Asian American rhetorics, American studies, and anyone interested in the relationship between literacy and social justice.
The Spectacle Of Japanese American Trauma
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Author : Emily Roxworthy
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2008-07-31
The Spectacle Of Japanese American Trauma written by Emily Roxworthy and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-31 with Social Science categories.
In The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma, Emily Roxworthy contests the notion that the U.S. government’s internment policies during World War II had little impact on the postwar lives of most Japanese Americans. After the curtain was lowered on the war following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many Americans behaved as if the “theatre of war” had ended and life could return to normal. Roxworthy demonstrates that this theatrical logic of segregating the real from the staged, the authentic experience from the political display, grew out of the manner in which internment was agitated for and instituted by the U.S. government and media. During the war, Japanese Americans struggled to define themselves within the web of this theatrical logic, and they continue to reenact this trauma in public and private to this day. The political spectacles staged by the FBI and the American mass media were heir to a theatricalizing discourse that can be traced back to Commodore Matthew Perry’s “opening” of Japan in 1853. Westerners, particularly Americans, drew upon it to orientalize—disempower, demonize, and conquer—those of Japanese descent, who were characterized as natural-born actors who could not be trusted. Roxworthy provides the first detailed reconstruction of the FBI’s raids on Japanese American communities, which relied on this discourse to justify their highly choreographed searches, seizures, and arrests. Her book also makes clear how wartime newspapers (particularly those of the notoriously anti-Asian Hearst Press) melodramatically framed the evacuation and internment so as to discourage white Americans from sympathizing with their former neighbors of Japanese descent. Roxworthy juxtaposes her analysis of these political spectacles with the first inclusive look at cultural performances staged by issei and nisei (first- and second-generation Japanese Americans) at two of the most prominent “relocation centers”: California’s Manzanar and Tule Lake. The camp performances enlarge our understanding of the impulse to create art under oppressive conditions. Taken together, wartime political spectacles and the performative attempts at resistance by internees demonstrate the logic of racial performativity that underwrites American national identity. The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma details the complex formula by which racial performativity proved to be a force for both oppression and resistance during World War II.