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Nisei Legacy

Author : Richard T. Imon
Publisher : Number One Son Publishing Company LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780983581963
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Nisei Legacy written by Richard T. Imon and published by Number One Son Publishing Company LLC. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nisei Legacy: A History of A Japanese American Family Through Photography 1902- Present is not just a pictorial essay of an immigrant family but also an ethnography of how the Japanese Americans were quick to assimilate into American society and culture. The book is divided into eras beginning with the late Meiji Period (1899) and unfolds events which were relevant to both the United States and Japan.The book is written in a style for both the experienced and the younger reader making it an interesting and easy read. The plethora of rare photographs and documents relating to the war years and the internment add interest for further internet and library research.Not many books deal with both the Manzanar and Rohwer Relocation Centers and the Secret Nisei Language Schools set up to help shorten the war. The perspective of the Meiji era generation are visualized through 100 year old images and tell a story of a people willing to risk everything and venture to America. Included in this work is also a study guide to assist students in the history and ethnic studies fields. The text is perfect for any age especially the middle school and high school student. With the resurgence of interest in Japanese American history in Japan. This work will undoubtedly be popular with Japanese abroad and with all people interested in preserving their cultural heritage for generations to come.

Legacy of Injustice

Author : Donna K. Nagata
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489911189
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Legacy of Injustice written by Donna K. Nagata and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 6, I discovered a jar of brightly colored shells under my grandmother's kitchen sink. When I inquired where they had come from, she did not answer. Instead, she told me in broken English, "Ask your mother. " My mother's response to the same question was, "Oh, I made them in camp. " "Was it fun?" I asked enthusiastically. "Not really," she replied. Her answer puzzled me. The shells were beautiful, and camp, as far as I knew, was a fun place where children roasted marshmallows and sang songs around the fire. Yet my mother's reaction did not seem happy. I was perplexed by this brief exchange, but I also sensed I should not ask more questions. As time went by, "camp" remained a vague, cryptic reference to some time in the past, the past of my parents, their friends, my grand parents, and my relatives. We never directly discussed it. It was not until high school that I began to understand the significance of the word, that camp referred to a World War II American concentration camp, not a summer camp. Much later I learned that the silence surrounding discus sions about this traumatic period of my parents' lives was a phenomenon characteristic not only of my family but also of most other Japanese American families after the war.

Nisei/Sansei

Author : Jere Takahashi
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566396592
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Nisei/Sansei written by Jere Takahashi and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To talk about "political style" is to acknowledge a dynamic and somewhat improvisational approach to politics; it is to acknowledge the need to work within the limits presented by tradition, resources, and social context. To speak of "political style" in relation to a particular ethnic group is to recognize their agency in shaping their history.In Nisei/Sansei: Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics, Jere Takahashi challenges studies that describe the Japanese American community's essentially linear process toward assimilation into U.S. society. As he develops a complex and nuanced account of Japanese American life, he shows that a diversity of opinion and debate about effective political strategy characterized each generation of Japanese Americans. As he investigates the ways in which each generation attempted to advance its interests and concerns, he uncovers the struggles over key issues and introduces the community activists whose voices have been muffled by assimilation narratives.Takahashi's approach to political style includes the ways that Japanese Americans mustered and managed political resources, but also encompasses their on-going efforts at self-definition. His focus, then, is on personal and social action; on individual activists, power, and ideological shifts within the community, and generational change. In telling the story of the community's complex and dynamic relationship to the larger society, he highlights individuals who contributed to the struggles and debates that paved the way for the emergence of a distinct Japanese American identity. Author note: Jere Takahashi teaches Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Japanese Americans

Author : Roger Daniels
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295801506
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Americans written by Roger Daniels and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and expanded edition of Japanese Americans: From Relocation to Redress presents the most complete and current published account of the Japanese American experience from the evacuation order of World War II to the public policy debate over redress and reparations. A chronology and comprehensive overview of the Japanese American experience by Roger Daniels are underscored by first person accounts of relocations by Bill Hosokawa, Toyo Suyemoto Kawakami, Barry Saiki, Take Uchida, and others, and previously undescribed events of the interment camps for “enemy aliens” by John Culley and Tetsuden Kashima. The essays bring us up to the U.S. government’s first redress payments, made forty eight years after the incarceration of Japanese Americans began. The combined vision of editors Roger Daniels, Sandra C. Taylor, and Harry H. L. Kitano in pulling together disparate aspects of the Japanese American experience results in a landmark volume in the wrenching experiment of American democracy.

The Unquiet Nisei

Author : D. Bahr
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230609996
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Unquiet Nisei written by D. Bahr and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-09 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An oral-history-based biography of a seminal Asian-American activist. The book traces Embrey's life from her youth in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, to her harrowing experiences in the Japanese internment camps, to her many decades of passionate advocacy on behalf of her fellow internees.

Tour of Duty

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610595261
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Tour of Duty written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 50 true narratives by both veterans and active duty personnel spans four wars. This is a book that delivers exceptional tales to stir patriotism, laughter and enthusiasm: - A Vietnam Veteran recounts a harrowing night hoist where his Medevac helicopter plummets to the ground. - A Marine adrift and hungry in the middle of an ocean, improvises. - A Fighter Pilot flying dangerous missions in the South Pacific learns why a dog really is a man's best friend.

Enduring Legacies

Author : Arturo J. Aldama
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 145710959X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Enduring Legacies written by Arturo J. Aldama and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional accounts of Colorado's history often reflect an Anglocentric perspective that begins with the 1859 Pikes Peak Gold Rush and Colorado's establishment as a state in 1876. Enduring Legacies expands the study of Colorado's past and present by adopting a borderlands perspective that emphasizes the multiplicity of peoples who have inhabited this region. Addressing the dearth of scholarship on the varied communities within Colorado-a zone in which collisions structured by forces of race, nation, class, gender, and sexuality inevitably lead to the transformation of cultures and the emergence of new identities-this volume is the first to bring together comparative scholarship on historical and contemporary issues that span groups from Chicanas and Chicanos to African Americans to Asian Americans. This book will be relevant to students, academics, and general readers interested in Colorado history and ethnic studies.

WE HEREBY REFUSE

Author : Frank Abe
Publisher : Chin Music Press
ISBN 13 : 1634050312
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book WE HEREBY REFUSE written by Frank Abe and published by Chin Music Press. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice. The story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. Japanese Americans complied when evicted from their homes in World War II -- but many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. In this groundbreaking graphic novel, meet JIM AKUTSU, the inspiration for John Okada’s No-No Boy, who refuses to be drafted from the camp at Minidoka when classified as a non-citizen, an enemy alien; HIROSHI KASHIWAGI, who resists government pressure to sign a loyalty oath at Tule Lake, but yields to family pressure to renounce his U.S. citizenship; and MITSUYE ENDO, a reluctant recruit to a lawsuit contesting her imprisonment, who refuses a chance to leave the camp at Topaz so that her case could reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Based upon painstaking research, We Hereby Refuse presents an original vision of America’s past with disturbing links to the American present.

Common Ground

Author : Akemi Kikumura-Yano
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0870817795
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Common Ground written by Akemi Kikumura-Yano and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of seventeen essays, anthropologists, art historians, museum curators, writers, designers, and historians provide case studies exploring collaboration with community-oriented partners in order to document, interpret, and present their histories and experiences and provide a new understanding of what museums can and should be in the United States.

Personal Justice Denied

Author : United States. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Personal Justice Denied written by United States. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stanley Hayami

Author : Scott E D Skyrm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781883283667
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Stanley Hayami written by Scott E D Skyrm and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Hayami was sixteen when he was sent to Heart Mountain, an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. He kept a diary of his life in the camps, augmented with sketches and drawings. In 1944, like many young Nisei men, he was drafted into the 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team, an all-Nisei unit, continuing to write and earning a Bronze Star. He never lost his faith in America, and remained defiantly patriotic to the last. He was killed in combat in Northern Italy on April 23rd, 1945, while trying to help a fellow soldier. He was nineteen years old. This book is based on his diary, now in the permanent collection of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, Ca.

Facing the Mountain

Author : Daniel James Brown
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525557407
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Facing the Mountain written by Daniel James Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2021 Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Christopher Award “Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism… Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown’s ability to make us care deeply about the fates of these individual soldiers...a page-turner.” – Wall Street Journal From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and resistance, focusing on four Japanese American men and their families, and the contributions and sacrifices that they made for the sake of the nation. In the days and months after Pearl Harbor, the lives of Japanese Americans across the continent and Hawaii were changed forever. In this unforgettable chronicle of war-time America and the battlefields of Europe, Daniel James Brown portrays the journey of Rudy Tokiwa, Fred Shiosaki, and Kats Miho, who volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and were deployed to France, Germany, and Italy, where they were asked to do the near impossible. Brown also tells the story of these soldiers' parents, immigrants who were forced to submit to life in concentration camps on U.S. soil. Woven throughout is the chronicle of Gordon Hirabayashi, one of a cadre of patriotic resisters who stood up against their government in defense of their own rights. Whether fighting on battlefields or in courtrooms, these were Americans under unprecedented strain, doing what Americans do best—striving, resisting, pushing back, rising up, standing on principle, laying down their lives, and enduring.

Unthinking Collaboration

Author : A. Carly Buxton
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824891953
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Unthinking Collaboration written by A. Carly Buxton and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unthinking Collaboration uncovers the little-known history of Japanese Americans who weathered the years of World War II on Japanese soil. Severed from the country of their birth when the attack on Pearl Harbor abruptly halted all passenger traffic on the Pacific, these Nisei faced the years of total war as members of the Japanese populace, yet as the target of anti-American propaganda and suspicion. Whereas their white American counterparts were sequestered by Japanese authorities, placed on house arrest, or sent home on exchange ships during the war, American Nisei in Japan were left to contribute to the war effort alongside their Japanese neighbors as soldiers, cryptographers, interpreters, and in farming and manufacturing. When the dust of air raid bombings cleared, many such Nisei transitioned into roles in service of the Allied occupation and its goals of democratization and demilitarization. As censors, translators, interpreters, and administrative staff, they played integral roles in facilitating American-Japanese interaction, as well as in shaping policies and public opinion in the postwar era. Weaving archival data with oral histories, personal narratives, material culture, and fiction, Unthinking Collaboration emphasizes the heterogeneity of Japanese immigrant experiences, and sheds light on broader issues of identity, race, and performance of individuals growing up in a bicultural or multicultural context. By distancing “collaboration” from its default elision with moral judgment, and by incorporating contemporary findings from psychology and behavioral science about the power of the subconscious mind to influence human behavior, author A. Carly Buxton offers an alternative approach to history—one that posits historical subjects as deeply embedded in the realities of their physical and discursive environment. Walking beside Nisei as they navigate their everyday lives in transwar Japan, readers “un-think” long-held assumptions about the actions and decisions of individuals as represented in history. The result is an ambitious historical study that speaks to readers who are interested in broader questions of race and trust, empire-building, World War II and its legacy on both the Western and Pacific fronts, and to all who consider questions of loyalty, treason, assimilation, and collaboration.

Growing Up Nisei

Author : David K. Yoo
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252054334
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Nisei written by David K. Yoo and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place occupied by Japanese Americans within the annals of United States history often begins and ends with their cameo appearance as victims of incarceration after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In this provocative work, David K. Yoo broadens the scope of Japanese American history to examine how the second generation—the Nisei—shaped its identity and negotiated its place within American society. Tracing the emergence of a dynamic Nisei subculture, Yoo shows how the foundations laid during the 1920s and 1930s helped many Nisei adjust to the upheaval of the concentration camps. Schools, racial-ethnic churches, and the immigrant press served not merely as waystations to assimilation but as tools by which Nisei affirmed their identity in connection with both Japanese and American culture. The Nisei who came of age during World War II formed identities while negotiating complexities of race, gender, class, generation, economics, politics, and international relations. A thoughtful consideration of the gray area between accommodation and resistance, Growing Up Nisei reveals the struggles and humanity of a forgotten generation of Japanese Americans.

Japanese American Ethnicity

Author : Takeyuki Tsuda
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479810797
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Japanese American Ethnicity written by Takeyuki Tsuda and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Ethnic heritage across the generations: racialization, transnationalism, and homeland -- History and the second generation -- The prewar Nisei: Americanization and nationalist belonging -- The postwar Nisei: biculturalism and transnational identities -- Racialization, citizenship, and heritage -- Assimilation and loss of ethnic heritage among third-generation Japanese Americans -- The struggle for racial citizenship among later-generation Japanese Americans -- Ethnic revival among fourth-generation Japanese Americans -- Ethnic heritage, performance, and diasporicity -- Japanese American taiko and the remaking of tradition -- Performative authenticity and fragmented empowerment through taiko -- Diasporicity and Japanese Americans -- Conclusion: Japanese Americans ethnic legacies and the future

Surviving Minidoka

Author : Russell Mark Tremayne
Publisher : Boise State University
ISBN 13 : 9780984010066
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Surviving Minidoka written by Russell Mark Tremayne and published by Boise State University. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nisei linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service During World War II (Paperbound)

Author : James C. McNaughton
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160867057
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Nisei linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service During World War II (Paperbound) written by James C. McNaughton and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2006 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book tells the story of an unusual group of American soldiers in World War II, second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served as interpreters and translators in the Military Intelligence Service."--Preface.