Author: Amerasia Resources, incPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Japanese in America: Issei, Nisei, Sansei
Author: Amerasia Resources, incPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Issei, Nisei, Sansei
Author: Issei, Nisei and Sansei
Author: Paul WongNisei/Sansei
Author: Jere TakahashiPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781566396592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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.
Issei, Nisei, War Bride
Author: Evelyn Nakano GlennPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439903506
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A unique study of Japanese American women employed as domestic workers.
Roots of the Issei
Author: Andrew Way LeongPublisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 0817922067
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Roots of the Issei presents a complex and nuanced picture of the Japanese American community in the early twentieth century: a people challenged by racial prejudice and anti-Japanese immigration laws trying to gain a foothold in a new land while remaining connected to Japan. Against this backdrop, Andrew Way Leong examines the emergence of generational terms that have long been used to organize Japanese American narratives: issei (first generation), nisei (second generation), and sansei (third generation). In the process, he suggests these widely-used generational concepts are in fact a recent construct. Leong's illuminating research is made possible by the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection, the world's largest open-access, full-image, and searchable online digital collection of Japanese American newspapers. With this technology, Leong is able to analyze materials that until recently were regarded as beyond computer-aided analysis, due to difficulties presented by the complexity of Japanese language. With access to these primary sources, Leong is able to upend several scholarly assumptions and beliefs and present a never-before-seen picture of Japanese American struggles—both with an adversarial host country and among themselves—backed by the authority of primary sources.
Tradition and Change in Three Generations of Japanese Americans
Author: John W. ConnorPublisher: Chicago : Nelson-Hall
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Mothering, Education, and Ethnicity
Author: Susan Matoba AdlerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317732944
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This postmodern feminist study explores changes in Japanese American women's perspectives on child rearing, education, and ethnicity across three generations-Nisei (second), Sansei (third), and Yonsei (fourth). Shifts in socio-political and cultural milieu have influenced the construction of racial and ethnic identities; Nisei women survived internment before relocating to the midwest, Sansei women grew up in white suburban communities, while Yonsei women grew up in a culture increasingly attuned toward multiculturalism. In contrast to the historical focus on Japanese American communities in California and Hawaii, this study explores the transformation of ethnic culture in the midwest. Midwestern Japanese American women found themselves removed from large ethnic communities, and the development of their identities and culture provides valuable insight into the experience of a group of Asian minorities in the heartland. The book explores central issues in studies of Japanese culture, the Japanese sense of self, and the Japanese family, including amae (mother-child dependency relationship), gambare (perseverance), and gaman (endurance).
Japanese American Women
Author: Carli Crozier SchiffnerPublisher:
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Category : Japanese American women
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Japanese American Experience
Author: David J. O'BrienPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253206565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"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.