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Author : Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Japanese American Achievement in Chicago written by Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacalyn D. Harden
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452905969
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Double Cross written by Jacalyn D. Harden and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alice K. Murata
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738519524
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Japanese Americans in Chicago written by Alice K. Murata and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two hundred vintage images from family archives, museums, and university collections capture the cultural and economic history of Chicago's Japanese communities.
Author : Alice Kishiye Murata
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531613235
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Japanese-Americans in Chicago, Il written by Alice Kishiye Murata and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese Americans who choose to reside in Chicago consider it to be the best city in the world. The first Japanese arrived in the city to prepare for the 1893 Columbian Exposition and the building of the Ho-o-den Pavilion. Prior to World War II, only a few hundred Japanese Americans lived in Chicago; however, during the War many were brought from concentration camps to help with the war effort. The number of Japanese-American residents peaked at more than 20,000 by 1945, with half of them returning to their west coast homes when permitted. For those who remained, the acceptance and employment opportunities found in Chicago offered a chance to begin new lives in a more ethnically-diverse city. These recollections, told through the medium of historic photographs, expose what is at the heart of Chicago's Japanese-American community-a deep commitment to patriotism and a devotion to country and civil rights. This book of more than 200 vintage images reveals for the first time aspects of Japanese-American life in Chicago over four generations, through the eyes of those who lived it.
Author : Kenji Nakane
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Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)
Download or read book History of Japanese Americans in Chicago written by Kenji Nakane and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold W. Stevenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Contexts of Achievement written by Harold W. Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura McEnaney
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812295447
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Postwar written by Laura McEnaney and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When World War II ended, Americans celebrated a military victory abroad, but the meaning of peace at home was yet to be defined. From roughly 1943 onward, building a postwar society became the new national project, and every interest group involved in the war effort—from business leaders to working-class renters—held different visions for the war's aftermath. In Postwar, Laura McEnaney plumbs the depths of this period to explore exactly what peace meant to a broad swath of civilians, including apartment dwellers, single women and housewives, newly freed Japanese American internees, African American migrants, and returning veterans. In her fine-grained social history of postwar Chicago, McEnaney puts ordinary working-class people at the center of her investigation. What she finds is a working-class war liberalism—a conviction that the wartime state had taken things from people, and that the postwar era was about reclaiming those things with the state's help. McEnaney examines vernacular understandings of the state, exploring how people perceived and experienced government in their lives. For Chicago's working-class residents, the state was not clearly delineated. The local offices of federal agencies, along with organizations such as the Travelers Aid Society and other neighborhood welfare groups, all became what she calls the state in the neighborhood, an extension of government to serve an urban working class recovering from war. Just as they had made war, the urban working class had to make peace, and their requests for help, large and small, constituted early dialogues about the role of the state during peacetime. Postwar examines peace as its own complex historical process, a passage from conflict to postconflict that contained human struggles and policy dilemmas that would shape later decades as fatefully as had the war.
Author : Japanese American National Museum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Japanese Americans in Chicago written by Japanese American National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Yu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190287993
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Thinking Orientals written by Henry Yu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking Orientals is a groundbreaking study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of twentieth-century American society. It reveals the influential role Asian Americans played in constructing the understandings of Asian American identity. It examines the unique role played by sociologists, particularly sociologists at the University of Chicago, in the study of the "Oriental Problem" before World War II and also analyzes the internment of Japanese Americans during the war and the subsequent "model minority" profile.
Author : Michael Daniel Albert
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Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (743 download)
Download or read book Japanese American Communities in Chicago and the Twin Cities written by Michael Daniel Albert and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Greg Robinson
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295747978
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book The Unsung Great written by Greg Robinson and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a title-winning boxer in Louisiana to a Broadway baritone in New York, Japanese Americans have long belied their popular representation as “quiet Americans.” Showcasing the lives and achievements of relatively unknown but remarkable people in Nikkei history, scholar and journalist Greg Robinson reveals the diverse experiences of Japanese Americans and explores a wealth of themes, including mixed-race families, artistic pioneers, mass confinement, civil rights activism, and queer history. Drawn primarily from Robinson’s popular writings in the San Francisco newspaper Nichi Bei Weekly and community website Discover Nikkei, The Unsung Great offers entertaining and compelling stories that challenge one-dimensional views of Japanese Americans. This collection breaks new ground by devoting attention to Nikkei beyond the West Coast—including the vibrant communities of New York and Chicago, as well as the little-known history of Japanese Americans in the US South. Expertly researched and accessibly written, The Unsung Great brings to light a constellation of varied and incredible life stories.
Author : Jennifer Lee
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610448502
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Asian American Achievement Paradox written by Jennifer Lee and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian Americans are often stereotyped as the “model minority.” Their sizeable presence at elite universities and high household incomes have helped construct the narrative of Asian American “exceptionalism.” While many scholars and activists characterize this as a myth, pundits claim that Asian Americans’ educational attainment is the result of unique cultural values. In The Asian American Achievement Paradox, sociologists Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou offer a compelling account of the academic achievement of the children of Asian immigrants. Drawing on in-depth interviews with the adult children of Chinese immigrants and Vietnamese refugees and survey data, Lee and Zhou bridge sociology and social psychology to explain how immigration laws, institutions, and culture interact to foster high achievement among certain Asian American groups. For the Chinese and Vietnamese in Los Angeles, Lee and Zhou find that the educational attainment of the second generation is strikingly similar, despite the vastly different socioeconomic profiles of their immigrant parents. Because immigration policies after 1965 favor individuals with higher levels of education and professional skills, many Asian immigrants are highly educated when they arrive in the United States. They bring a specific “success frame,” which is strictly defined as earning a degree from an elite university and working in a high-status field. This success frame is reinforced in many local Asian communities, which make resources such as college preparation courses and tutoring available to group members, including their low-income members. While the success frame accounts for part of Asian Americans’ high rates of achievement, Lee and Zhou also find that institutions, such as public schools, are crucial in supporting the cycle of Asian American achievement. Teachers and guidance counselors, for example, who presume that Asian American students are smart, disciplined, and studious, provide them with extra help and steer them toward competitive academic programs. These institutional advantages, in turn, lead to better academic performance and outcomes among Asian American students. Yet the expectations of high achievement come with a cost: the notion of Asian American success creates an “achievement paradox” in which Asian Americans who do not fit the success frame feel like failures or racial outliers. While pundits ascribe Asian American success to the assumed superior traits intrinsic to Asian culture, Lee and Zhou show how historical, cultural, and institutional elements work together to confer advantages to specific populations. An insightful counter to notions of culture based on stereotypes, The Asian American Achievement Paradox offers a deft and nuanced understanding how and why certain immigrant groups succeed.
Author : Indo-American Center
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738519982
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Asian Indians of Chicago written by Indo-American Center and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the infectious rhythm of the bhangra dance and the sizzle of the tandoori platter to landmark achievements in research laboratories and corporate boardrooms, the Asian Indian presence has very quickly become a lively and colorful part of the daily life of the Chicago metropolitan area. Arriving in Chicago in the mid 60s, the first wave of Indians were mostly professionals who intended to return home. But as they stayed on and were joined by others, their population began to reflect the tremendous ethnic, linguistic, and religious diversity of India. Today, Indians are the largest Asian-American immigrant group in the Chicago area. Recognizing that first-hand resources would still be available for compiling their history, the Indo-American Center appealed to Chicago area residents of Indian origin and to their organizations to select photographs and documents from their personal collections to tell the story of the community. This book is a result of their enthusiastic response. Here, then, is a history in the making, -the record, in pictures, of the life of a diverse and vibrant community as told by the people who live it and shape its course.
Author : Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Jokichi Takamine written by Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Anne Klaue
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Achievement Motivation of the Japanese American Adolescent Girl as Compared to the Caucasian American Adolescent Girl written by Nancy Anne Klaue and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Midori Takashina
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (574 download)
Download or read book A Study of Young Japanese Americans in Chicago written by Midori Takashina and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellen D. Wu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691168024
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Color of Success written by Ellen D. Wu and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the failure of America to live in accordance with its democratic ideals endangered the country's aspirations to world leadership. Weaving together myriad perspectives, Wu provides an unprecedented view of racial reform and the contradictions of national belonging in the civil rights era. She highlights the contests for power and authority within Japanese and Chinese America alongside the designs of those external to these populations, including government officials, social scientists, journalists, and others. And she demonstrates that the invention of the model minority took place in multiple arenas, such as battles over zoot suiters leaving wartime internment camps, the juvenile delinquency panic of the 1950s, Hawaii statehood, and the African American freedom movement. Together, these illuminate the impact of foreign relations on the domestic racial order and how the nation accepted Asians as legitimate citizens while continuing to perceive them as indelible outsiders. By charting the emergence of the model minority stereotype, The Color of Success reveals that this far-reaching, politically charged process continues to have profound implications for how Americans understand race, opportunity, and nationhood.
