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Nikkei in the Interior West

Author : Eric Walz
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816534454
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Nikkei in the Interior West written by Eric Walz and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Walz's Nikkei in the Interior West tells the story of more than twelve thousand Japanese immigrants who settled in the interior West--Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah. They came inland not as fugitives forced to relocate after Pearl Harbor but arrived decades before World War II as workers searching for a job or as picture brides looking to join husbands they had never met. Despite being isolated from their native country and the support of larger settlements on the West Coast, these immigrants formed ethnic associations, language schools, and religious institutions. They also experienced persecution and discrimination during World War II in dramatically different ways than the often-studied immigrants living along the Pacific Coast. Even though they struggled with discrimination, these interior communities grew both in size and in permanence to become an integral part of the American West. Using oral histories, journal entries, newspaper accounts, organization records, and local histories, Nikkei in the Interior West explores the conditions in Japan that led to emigration, the immigration process, the factors that drew immigrants to the interior, the cultural negotiation that led to ethnic development, and the effects of World War II. Examining not only the formation and impact of these Japanese communities but also their interaction with others in the region, Walz demonstrates how these communities connect with the broader Japanese diaspora.

Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest

Author : Louis Fiset
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295800097
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest written by Louis Fiset and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the notion that Nikkei individuals before and during World War II were helpless pawns manipulated by forces beyond their control, the diverse essays in this rich collection focus on the theme of resistance within Japanese American and Japanese Canadian communities to twentieth-century political, cultural, and legal discrimination. They illustrate how Nikkei groups were mobilized to fight discrimination through assertive legal challenges, community participation, skillful print publicity, and political and economic organization. Comprised of all-new and original research, this is the first anthology to highlight the contributions and histories of Nikkei within the entire Pacific Northwest, including British Columbia.

Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West

Author : Jessie L. Embry
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816599270
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West written by Jessie L. Embry and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nurses, show girls, housewives, farm workers, casino managers, and government inspectors—together these hard-working members of society contributed to the development of towns across the West. The essays in this volume show how oral history increases understanding of work and community in the twentieth century American West. In many cases occupations brought people together in myriad ways. The Latino workers who picked lemons together in Southern California report that it was baseball and Cinco de Mayo Queen contests that united them. Mormons in Fort Collins, Colorado, say that building a church together bonded them together. In separate essays, African Americans and women describe how they fostered a sense of community in Las Vegas. Native Americans detail the “Indian economy” in Northern California. As these essays demonstrate, the history of the American West is the story of small towns and big cities, places both isolated and heavily populated. It includes groups whose history has often been neglected. Sometimes, western history has mirrored the history of the nation; at other times, it has diverged in unique ways. Oral history adds a dimension that has often been missing in writing a comprehensive history of the West. Here an array of oral historians—including folklorists, librarians, and public historians—record what they have learned from people who have, in their own ways, made history.

Distant Islands

Author : Daniel H. Inouye
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607327937
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Distant Islands written by Daniel H. Inouye and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distant Islands is a modern narrative history of the Japanese American community in New York City between America's centennial year and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Often overshadowed in historical literature by the Japanese diaspora on the West Coast, this community, which dates back to the 1870s, has its own fascinating history. The New York Japanese American community was a composite of several micro communities divided along status, class, geographic, and religious lines. Using a wealth of primary sources—oral histories, memoirs, newspapers, government documents, photographs, and more—Daniel H. Inouye tells the stories of the business and professional elites, mid-sized merchants, small business owners, working-class families, menial laborers, and students that made up these communities. The book presents new knowledge about the history of Japanese immigrants in the United States and makes a novel and persuasive argument about the primacy of class and status stratification and relatively weak ethnic cohesion and solidarity in New York City, compared to the pervading understanding of nikkei on the West Coast. While a few prior studies have identified social stratification in other nikkei communities, this book presents the first full exploration of the subject and additionally draws parallels to divisions in German American communities. Distant Islands is a unique and nuanced historical account of an American ethnic community that reveals the common humanity of pioneering Japanese New Yorkers despite diverse socioeconomic backgrounds and life stories. It will be of interest to general readers, students, and scholars interested in Asian American studies, immigration and ethnic studies, sociology, and history. Winner- Honorable Mention, 2018 Immigration and Ethnic History Society First Book Award

Asian American History Day by Day

Author : Jonathan H. X. Lee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Asian American History Day by Day written by Jonathan H. X. Lee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For student research, this reference highlights the importance of Asian Americans in U.S. history, the impact of specific individuals, and this ethnic group as a whole across time; documenting evolving policies, issues, and feelings concerning this particular American population. Asian American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events provides a uniquely interesting way to learn about events in Asian American history that span several hundred years (and the contributions of Asian Americans to U.S. culture in that time). The book is organized in the form of a calendar, with each day of the year corresponding with an entry about an important event, person, or innovation that span several hundred years of Asian American history and references to books and websites that can provide more information about that event. Readers will also have access to primary source document excerpts that accompany the daily entries and serve as additional resources that help bring history to life. With this guide in hand, teachers will be able to more easily incorporate Asian American history into their classes, and students will find the book an easy-to-use guide to the Asian American past and an ideal "jumping-off point" for more targeted research.

Japanese American Incarceration

Author : Stephanie D. Hinnershitz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812299957
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Japanese American Incarceration written by Stephanie D. Hinnershitz and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II as a history of prison labor and exploitation. Following Franklin Roosevelt's 1942 Executive Order 9066, which called for the exclusion of potentially dangerous groups from military zones along the West Coast, the federal government placed Japanese Americans in makeshift prisons throughout the country. In addition to working on day-to-day operations of the camps, Japanese Americans were coerced into harvesting crops, digging irrigation ditches, paving roads, and building barracks for little to no compensation and often at the behest of privately run businesses—all in the name of national security. How did the U.S. government use incarceration to address labor demands during World War II, and how did imprisoned Japanese Americans respond to the stripping of not only their civil rights, but their labor rights as well? Using a variety of archives and collected oral histories, Japanese American Incarceration uncovers the startling answers to these questions. Stephanie Hinnershitz's timely study connects the government's exploitation of imprisoned Japanese Americans to the history of prison labor in the United States.

Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan

Author : Anne Giblin Gedacht
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900452794X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan written by Anne Giblin Gedacht and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1870, a prominent samurai from Tōhoku sells his castle to become an agrarian colonist in Hokkaidō. Decades later, a man also from northeast Japan stows away on a boat to Canada and establishes a salmon roe business. By 1930, an investigative journalist travels to Brazil and writes a book that wins the first-ever Akutagawa Prize. In the 1940s, residents from the same area proclaim that they should lead Imperial Japan in colonizing all of Asia. Across decades and oceans, these fractured narratives seem disparate, but show how mobility is central to the history of Japan’s Tōhoku region, a place often stereotyped as a site of rural stasis and traditional immobility, thereby collapsing boundaries between local, national, and global studies of Japan. This book examines how multiple mobilities converge in Japan’s supposed hinterland. Drawing on research from three continents, this monograph demonstrates that Tohoku’s regional identity is inextricably intertwined with Pacific migrations.

Northeastern Asia and the Northern Rockies

Author : Stephen Little
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1685711162
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Northeastern Asia and the Northern Rockies written by Stephen Little and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Yamato Colony

Author : Ryusuke Kawai
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813065429
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Yamato Colony written by Ryusuke Kawai and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida Historical Society Harry T. And Harriette V. Moore Award Opening a window onto the little-known Japanese-American heritage of Florida, Yamato Colony is the true tale of a daring immigrant venture that left behind an important legacy. Ryusuke Kawai tells how a Japanese farming settlement came to be in south Florida, far from other Japanese communities in the United States. Kawai’s captivating story takes readers back to the early twentieth century, a time when Japanese citizens were beginning to look to possibilities for individual wealth and success overseas. Poor, unlucky in love, and dreaming of returning rich to marry his sweetheart, a young man named Sukeji Morikami boarded a passenger steamer at the port of Yokohama and set off to make his fortune. Morikami was drawn by promises from his compatriot Jo Sakai, founder of an agricultural community called Yamato between Boca Raton and Delray Beach, Florida. Sakai extolled the prospects of raising pineapples and other crops amid the state’s economic boom and exciting developments like Flagler’s East Coast Railway. This book follows the experiences of Morikami and his fellow Yamato settlers through World War II, when the struggling colony closed for good. Morikami held on to his hopes for Yamato until the end, when at last, the lone survivor, he donated the land that would become the widely visited Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens. Celebrating the lives of ordinary men and women who left their homes and traveled an enormous distance to settle and raise their families in Florida, this book brings to light a unique moment in the state’s history that few people know about today.

Asians in Colorado

Author : William Wei
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295806362
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Asians in Colorado written by William Wei and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the most comprehensive examination to date of Asians in the Centennial State, William Wei addresses a wide range of experiences, from anti-Chinese riots in late nineteenth-century Denver to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans at the Amache concentration camp to the more recent influx of Southeast Asian refugees and South Asian tech professionals. Drawing on a wealth of historical sources, Wei reconstructs what life was like for the early Chinese and Japanese pioneers, and he pays special attention to the different challenges faced by those in urban versus rural areas. The result is a groundbreaking approach that helps us better understand how Asians survived—and thrived—in an often hostile environment. Offering a fresh perspective on how cycles of persecution are repeated, Wei reveals how the treatment of Asian Americans resonates with the experiences of other marginalized groups in American society. His study sheds light not only on the Asian American experience but also on the development of Colorado and the greater American West.

The Japanese American Experience

Author : David J. O'Brien
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253206565
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Japanese American Experience written by David J. O'Brien and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Slim, well-researched, and readable, this is not only a social history of an ethnic community but a gateway into the ancient psyche of the Japanese." --The San Francisco Review of Books "... straightforward... informative... " --Contemporary Sociology "The Japanese American Experience... will be used with profit by professors and students in sociology and ethnic studies courses, for it is the best general text on Japanese Americans currently in print."--The Journal of American History "... a succinct and insightful account of the community's early struggle for survival in a racist society... " --American Historical Review This concise history of three generations of Japanese Americans focuses on their collective response to the challenges of discrimination and to the strikingly different historical circumstances each generation has faced.

Utah Historical Quarterly

Author : J. Cecil Alter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Utah Historical Quarterly written by J. Cecil Alter and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of charter members of the society: v. 1, p. 98-99.

The Journal of Arizona History

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Arizona History written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Personal Justice Denied: Report

Author : United States. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Personal Justice Denied: Report written by United States. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part II (p.315-359) concerns the removal of Aleuts to camps in southeastern Alaska and their subsequent resettlement at war's end.

Old Blue's Road

Author : James Whiteside
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607323273
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Old Blue's Road written by James Whiteside and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Colorado Book Award (History) In Old Blue’s Road, historian James Whiteside shares accounts of his motorcycle adventures across the American West. He details the places he has seen, the people he has met, and the personal musings those encounters prompted on his unique journeys of discovery. In 2005, Whiteside bought a Harley Davidson Heritage Softail, christened it “Old Blue,” and set off on a series of far-reaching motorcycle adventures. Over six years he traveled more than 15,000 miles. Part travelogue and part historical tour, this book takes the reader along for the ride. Whiteside’s travels to the Pacific Northwest, Yellowstone, Dodge City, Santa Fe, Wounded Knee, and many other locales prompt consideration of myriad topics—the ongoing struggle between Indian and mainstream American culture, the meaning of community, the sustainability of the West's hydraulic society, the creation of the national parks system, the Mormon experience in Utah, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and more. Delightfully funny and insightful, Old Blue’s Road links the colorful history and vibrant present from Whiteside’s unique vantage point, recognizing and reflecting on the processes of change that made the West what it is today. The book will interest the general reader and western historian alike, leading to new appreciation for the complex ways in which the American West's past and present come together.

American-Japanese Relations

Author : Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami
Publisher : New York, Revell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American-Japanese Relations written by Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami and published by New York, Revell. This book was released on 1912 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Japanese Americans

Author : Paul R. Spickard
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813544335
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Americans written by Paul R. Spickard and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1855, nearly half a million Japanese immigrants have settled in the United States, and today more than twice that number claim Japanese ancestry. While these immigrants worked hard, established networks, and repeatedly distinguished themselves as entrepreneurs, they also encountered harsh discrimination. Nowhere was this more evident than on the West Coast during World War II, when virtually the entire population of Japanese Americans was forced into internment camps solely on the basis of ethnicity.