Between two empires : race, history, and transnationalism in Japanese America /
"Before World War II, Japanese immigrants, or Issei, forged a unique transnational identity between their native land and the United States. Whether merchants, community leaders, or rural farmers, Japanese immigrants shared a collective racial identity as aliens ineligible for American citizens...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2005]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Before World War II, Japanese immigrants, or Issei, forged a unique transnational identity between their native land and the United States. Whether merchants, community leaders, or rural farmers, Japanese immigrants shared a collective racial identity as aliens ineligible for American citizenship, even as they worked to form communities in the American West. At the same time, Imperial Japan considered Issei and their descendents part of its racial expansion abroad and enlisted them to further their nationalist goals. Azuma shows how Japanese immigrants negotiated their racial and class positions alongside white Americans, Chinese, and Filipinos at a time when Japan was fighting their countries of origin. Utilizing rare Japanese and English language sources, Azuma stresses the tight grips, as well as the clashing influences, the Japanese and American states exercised over Japanese immigrants, and how these immigrants and their descendants created identities that diverged from both national narratives."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 306 pages) : illustrations |
| Awards: | Asian American Studies Book Award--History, 2007. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-297) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198036128 0198036124 1423720385 9781423720386 0195159403 9780195159400 0195159411 9780195159417 |