Should Congress Enact Special Laws Affecting Japanese?

Should Congress Enact Special Laws Affecting Japanese?
Author: Sidney Lewis Gulick
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2017-04-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780259391708

Excerpt from Should Congress Enact Special Laws Affecting Japanese?: A Critical Examination of the "Hearings Before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization" Held in California, July 1920 The toil of the Committee was arduous as may well be inferred from the foregoing statement. A satisfactory index at the close of the Hearings gives the name of every witness and also the names of most of the organiza tions and interests seeking to inform the Committee. A significant and valuable feature of the Hearings was the large amount of time and printed space allowed the Japanese. They seemed eager to supply the Committee with facts. The Committee on its part seemed glad to have the Japanese state their case fully and freely. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Japanese Exclusion

Japanese Exclusion
Author: Julia Emily Johnsen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 154
Release: 1925
Genre: Emigration and immigration law
ISBN:

The Fight for Asian American Civil Rights

The Fight for Asian American Civil Rights
Author: Sarah M Griffith
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2018-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0252050355

From the early 1900s, liberal Protestants grafted social welfare work onto spiritual concerns on both sides of the Pacific. Their goal: to forge links between whites and Asians that countered anti-Asian discrimination in the United States. Their test: uprooting racial hatreds that, despite their efforts, led to the shameful incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II. Sarah M. Griffith draws on the experiences of liberal Protestants, and the Young Men's Christian Association in particular, to reveal the intellectual, social, and political forces that powered this movement. Engaging a wealth of unexplored primary and secondary sources, Griffith explores how YMCA leaders and their partners in the academy and distinct Asian American communities labored to mitigate racism. The alliance's early work, based in mainstream ideas of assimilation and integration, ran aground on the Japanese exclusion law of 1924. Yet their vision of Christian internationalism and interracial cooperation maintained through the World War II internment trauma. As Griffith shows, liberal Protestants emerged from that dark time with a reenergized campaign to reshape Asian-white relations in the postwar era.

Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924

Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924
Author: Jennifer Snow
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2006-12-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1135914508

This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant support of the civil rights movements in the 1960s

Americans Without Law

Americans Without Law
Author: Mark S. Weiner
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2006-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0814793649

Americans Without Law shows how the racial boundaries of civic life are based on widespread perceptions about the relative capacity of minority groups for legal behavior, which Mark S. Weiner calls “juridical racialism.” The book follows the history of this civic discourse by examining the legal status of four minority groups in four successive historical periods: American Indians in the 1880s, Filipinos after the Spanish-American War, Japanese immigrants in the 1920s, and African Americans in the 1940s and 1950s. Weiner reveals the significance of juridical racialism for each group and, in turn, Americans as a whole by examining the work of anthropological social scientists who developed distinctive ways of understanding racial and legal identity, and through decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court that put these ethno-legal views into practice. Combining history, anthropology, and legal analysis, the book argues that the story of juridical racialism shows how race and citizenship served as a nexus for the professionalization of the social sciences, the growth of national state power, economic modernization, and modern practices of the self.

Gendering the Trans-Pacific World

Gendering the Trans-Pacific World
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2017-03-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004336109

As the inaugural volume of the new Brill book series Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race, this anthology presents an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology features twenty-one chapters by new and established scholars and writers. They collectively examine the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy and affect, the importance of beauty and the body, and the circulation of culture. This is an ideal volume to introduce advanced undergraduate and graduate students to Transpacific Studies and gender as a category of analysis. Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race is now available in paperback for individual customers.

A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English

A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English
Author: Jozef Rogala
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-10-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136639233

Provides an invaluable and very accessible addition to existing biographic sources and references, not least because of the supporting biographies of major writers and the historical and cultural notes provided.