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Between two empires : race, history, and transnationalism in Japanese America /

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"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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Main Author: Azuma, Eiichiro (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Japanese Americans > West (U.S.) > History.
Japanese Americans > West (U.S.) > Social conditions.
Japanese Americans > West (U.S.) > Ethnic identity.
Immigrants > West (U.S.) > Social conditions.
Children of immigrants > West (U.S.) > Social conditions.
West (U.S.) > Race relations.
Transnationalism > History.
Japan > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Japan.
Transnationalisme > Histoire.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Relations raciales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
Children of immigrants > Social conditions
Immigrants > Social conditions
Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans > Ethnic identity
Japanese Americans > Social conditions
Race relations
International relations
Transnationalism
Japan
United States
West United States
Japanners.
Immigranten.
Rassenverhoudingen.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Immigrant transnationalism between two empires
  • I: Multiple beginnings
  • Mercantilists, colonialists, and laborers: heterogeneous origins of Japanese America
  • II: Convergences and divergences
  • Re-forming the immigrant masses: the transnational construction of a moral citizenry
  • Zaibei doho: racial exclusion and the making of an American minority
  • III: Pioneers and successors
  • "Pioneers of Japanese development": history making and racial identity
  • The problem of generation: preparing the nisei for the future
  • Wages of immigrant internationalism: nisei in the ancestral land
  • IV: Complexities of immigrant nationalism
  • Helping Japan, helping ourselves: the meaning of issei patriotism
  • Ethnic nationalism and racial struggle: interethnic relations in the California delta
  • Wartime racisms, state nationalisms, and the collapse of immigrant transnationalism.