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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Becoming Nisei
    sub title: Japanese American urban lives in prewar Tacoma
  name:
    name part: Hoffman, Lisa M. (Lisa Mae)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Hanneman, Mary L. (Mary Louise)
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: wau
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 289 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: As a key West Coast destination for Japanese immigration to the United States, Tacoma's vibrant nihonmachi had a significant population of Issei and Nisei by the 1920s and 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Tacoma Japanese Language School served as a community hub for the Japanese American community in the city. Based on interviews with over forty Nisei former students of the school, Lisa Hoffman and Mary Hanneman develop an interdisciplinary analysis of identity construction and negotiations over belonging by second generation Japanese Americans in pre-World War II urban America. With an approach both transnational in perspective and focused on urban space, the book explores the everyday lives of Japanese American children prior to incarceration, including the impact of their daily study at and participation in community events associated with the school. Drawing from interviews and archival sources, the authors illuminate the rich prewar cultural experiences of Japanese Americans in the city, a distinct social history often eclipsed by a focus on wartime incarceration. Additionally, the book underscores the role of the Japanese government and imperial Japanese educational traditions in shaping Tacoma's JLS, as Japan sought to emerge as an equal member of the international community.
  table of contents: Introduction. Becoming Nisei: Spatial Stories and Imprints of Meiji Japan -- From Meiji Japan to Tacoma: Establishing a New Community -- Struggle and Hard Work in Tacoma: Nisei Stories of Family Work from Physical Labor to Entrepreneurialism -- Japanese American Urban Lives: Spatial Stories of a Close Community in Tacoma -- Expanding Spatial Representations of Japanese in Prewar Tacoma -- The Impact of Kuniko and Masato Yamasaki, TJLS Teacher and Principal -- Ethical Lessons of Shushin: Meiji Japan Woven into Nisei Stories -- Conclusion. Incarceration, Dispersal, and Erasure: Destruction of a Community
  note: Lisa M. Hoffman and Mary L. Hanneman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-wa
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Nihongo Gakko (Tacoma, Wash.)
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Tacoma (Wash.)
    topic: Race relations
  subject:
    topic: Japanese Americans
    geographic: Washington (State)
    geographic: Tacoma
    genre: Interviews
  subject:
    topic: Japanese Americans
    geographic: Washington (State)
    geographic: Tacoma
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Japanese language
    topic: Study and teaching
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    geographic: Washington (State)
    geographic: Tacoma
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: F899.T2 H64 2021
  classification: 979.7/788
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies
  identifier: 9780295748214
  identifier: 0295748214
  identifier: 9780295748221
  identifier: 0295748222
  identifier: 9780295748238
  identifier: 2020015408
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200402
    record change date: 20210422122646.0
    record identifier: in00004400338