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| Author | : David K. Yoo |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 1999-12-03 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780252068225 |
The place occupied by Japanese Americans within the annals of United States history often begins and ends with their cameo appearance as victims of incarceration after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In this provocative work, David K. Yoo broadens the scope of Japanese American history to examine how the second generation—the Nisei—shaped its identity and negotiated its place within American society. Tracing the emergence of a dynamic Nisei subculture, Yoo shows how the foundations laid during the 1920s and 1930s helped many Nisei adjust to the upheaval of the concentration camps. Schools, racial-ethnic churches, and the immigrant press served not merely as waystations to assimilation but as tools by which Nisei affirmed their identity in connection with both Japanese and American culture. The Nisei who came of age during World War II formed identities while negotiating complexities of race, gender, class, generation, economics, politics, and international relations. A thoughtful consideration of the gray area between accommodation and resistance, Growing Up Nisei reveals the struggles and humanity of a forgotten generation of Japanese Americans.
| Author | : David K. Yoo |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2023-02-13 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0252054334 |
The place occupied by Japanese Americans within the annals of United States history often begins and ends with their cameo appearance as victims of incarceration after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In this provocative work, David K. Yoo broadens the scope of Japanese American history to examine how the second generation—the Nisei—shaped its identity and negotiated its place within American society. Tracing the emergence of a dynamic Nisei subculture, Yoo shows how the foundations laid during the 1920s and 1930s helped many Nisei adjust to the upheaval of the concentration camps. Schools, racial-ethnic churches, and the immigrant press served not merely as waystations to assimilation but as tools by which Nisei affirmed their identity in connection with both Japanese and American culture. The Nisei who came of age during World War II formed identities while negotiating complexities of race, gender, class, generation, economics, politics, and international relations. A thoughtful consideration of the gray area between accommodation and resistance, Growing Up Nisei reveals the struggles and humanity of a forgotten generation of Japanese Americans.
| Author | : Monica Itoi Sone |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780295956886 |
A Japanese-American's personal account of growing up in Seattle in the 1930s and of being subjected to relocation during World War II.
| Author | : Lisa Mae Hoffman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780295748221 |
Tacoma's vibrant Nihonmachi of the 1920s and '30s was home to a significant number of first- and second-generation Japanese immigrants to the United States, and these families formed tight-knit bonds despite their diverse religious, prefectural, and economic backgrounds. As the city's Nisei grew up attending the secular Japanese Language School, they absorbed the Meiji-era cultural practices and ethics of the previous generation. At the same time, they positioned themselves in new and dynamic ways, including resisting their parents and pursuing lives that diverged from traditional expectations. Becoming Nisei, based on more than forty interviews, shares stories of growing up in Japanese American Tacoma before the incarceration. Recording these early twentieth-century lives counteracts the structural forgetting and erasure of prewar histories in both Tacoma and many other urban settings after World War II. Lisa Hoffman and Mary Hanneman underscore both the agency of Nisei in these processes as well as their negotiations of prevailing social and power relations.
| Author | : Linda Tamura |
| Publisher | : Scott and Laurie Oki Series in |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015-08-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780295997063 |
Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence is a compelling story of courage, community, endurance, and reparation. It shares the experiences of Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, fighting on the front lines in Italy and France, serving as linguists in the South Pacific, and working as cooks and medics. The soldiers were from Hood River, Oregon, where their families were landowners and fruit growers. Town leaders, including veterans' groups, attempted to prevent their return after the war and stripped their names from the local war memorial. All of the soldiers were American citizens, but their parents were Japanese immigrants and had been imprisoned in camps as a consequence of Executive Order 9066. The racist homecoming that the Hood River Japanese American soldiers received was decried across the nation. Linda Tamura, who grew up in Hood River and whose father was a veteran of the war, conducted extensive oral histories with the veterans, their families, and members of the community. She had access to hundreds of recently uncovered letters and documents from private files of a local veterans' group that led the campaign against the Japanese American soldiers. This book also includes the little known story of local Nisei veterans who spent 40 years appealing their convictions for insubordination. Watch the book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch'v=hHMcFdmixLk
| Author | : CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2023-04-25 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1982195363 |
A collection of thirty heartfelt, witty, and hopeful thought pieces “that highlights the humanity and multitudes of being Asian American” (Kirkus Reviews, starred), for fans of Minor Feelings. There are 23 million people, representing more than twenty countries, each with unique languages, histories, and cultures, clumped under one banner: Asian American. Though their experiences are individual, certain commonalities appear. -The pressure to perform and the weight of the model minority myth. -The proximity to whiteness (for many) and the resulting privileges. -The desexualizing, exoticizing, and fetishizing of their bodies. -The microaggressions. -The erasure and overt racism. Through a series of essays, poems, and comics, thirty creators give voice to moments that defined them and shed light on the immense diversity and complexity of the Asian American identity. Edited by CAPE and with an introduction by renowned journalist SuChin Pak, My Life: Growing Up Asian in America is a celebration of community, a call to action, and “a vital record of the Asian American experience” (Publishers Weekly). It’s the perfect gift for any occasion. Featuring contributions from bestselling authors Melissa de la Cruz, Marie Lu, and Tanaïs; journalists Amna Nawaz, Edmund Lee, and Aisha Sultan; TV and film writers Teresa Hsiao, Heather Jeng Bladt, and Nathan Ramos-Park; and industry leaders Ellen K. Pao and Aneesh Raman, among many more.
| Author | : Gil Asakawa |
| Publisher | : Stone Bridge Press |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2015-08-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1611729149 |
A celebration of JA culture: facts, recipes, songs, words, and memories that every JA will want to share. From immigration to discrimination and internment, and then to reparations and a high rate of intermarriage, Americans of Japanese descent share a long and sometimes painful history, and now fear their unique culture is being lost. Gil Asakawa's celebration of what makes JAs so special is an entertaining blend of facts and features, of recipes, songs, and memories that every JA will want to share with friends and family. Included are interviews with famous JAs and a look at how it's hip to be Japanese, from manga to martial arts, plus a section on Japantown communities and tips for JA's scrapbooking their families and traveling to Japan to rediscover their roots.
| Author | : Greg Robinson |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2012-02-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520271580 |
"The tragedy of incarceration has dominated historical studies of Japanese Americans,and few have explored what happened in the years that followed. A welcome addition to the literature, Greg Robinson's insightful study, After Camp, will appeal to historians of immigration, the Asian American experience, comparative race relations, and the twentieth-century United States more broadly." —David K. Yoo, author of Growing Up Nisei "Greg Robinson has boldly and rightfully identified historians’ neglect of Japanese American experiences after World War II. Rather than focusing exclusively on the Pacific Coast, After Camp offers a nuanced exploration of the competing strategies and ideas about postwar assimilation among ethnic Japanese on a truly national scale. The depth and range of Robinson's research is impressive, and After Camp convincingly moves beyond the tragedy of internment to explain how the drama of resettlement was equally if not more important in shaping the lives of contemporary Japanese Americans."—Allison Varzally, author of Making a Non-White America.
| Author | : Rebecca Steoff |
| Publisher | : Chelsea House Publications |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Japanese Americans |
| ISBN | : 9780791021798 |
In the late 1800s the United States government encouraged Japanese emigration. Conflict started between the first generation Japanese Americans and their American born children because of the cultural influences from the United States population.
| Author | : Brian Komei Dempster |
| Publisher | : Heyday Books |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781597141420 |
Essays by 13 Japanese-American elders document the post-World War II experiences of displaced Japanese Americans who after being released from internment camps encountered homelessness, joblessness and racism while banding together to form a culturally resilient community. By the award-winning editor of From Our Side of the Fence.
