New worlds, new lives : globalization and people of Japanese descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan / edited by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Akemi Kikumura-Yano, James A. Hirabayashi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo.

Kikumura-Yano, Akemi, 1944-

Hirabayashi, James A.

Series:

Asian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese--America--Ethnic identity.

Japanese.

Relations.

Ethnic relations.

Social conditions.

History.

America.

Ethnicity.

Japanese--America--History.

Japanese--America--Social conditions.

America--Ethnic relations.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Japan--Relations--America.

Japan.

America--Relations--Japan.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 358 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

This book confronts the question of who and what is a Nikkei, that is, a person of Japanese descent, by presenting 18 case studies from throughout the Americas- including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Paraguay, Peru, and the United States.

Contents:

Part 1 The Impact of Globalization on Nikkei Identities

1. Globalization as Human Dispersal: Nikkei in the World / Harumi Befu 5

2. The Impact of Contemporary Globalization on Nikkei Identities / Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Akemi Kikumura-Yano, James A. Hirabayashi 19

Part 2 Conjunctions of Nikkei Identities

Community Formations and Linkages

3. In Search of the Hyphen: Nikkei and the Struggle over Brazilian National Identity / Jeffrey Lesser 37

4. Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia: Relief Materials and Nikkei Populations in the United States and Canada / Masako Iino 59

5. An Approach to the Formation of Nikkei Identity in Peru: Issei and Nisei / Raul Araki 76

6. The "Labor Pains" of Forging a Nikkei Community: A Study of the Santa Cruz Region in Bolivia / Kozy Amemiya 90

The Politics of Ethnic Reproduction: Education and Representation

7. "The Twain Shall Meet" in the Nisei? Japanese Language Education and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1900-1940 / Teruko Kumei 108

8. The Nikkei's Education in the Japanese Language in Paraguay: The Japanese Educational System and Its Influence on the Colonies / Emi Kasamatsu 126

9. Peruvian Nikkei: A Sociopolitical Portrait / Amelia Morimoto 141

10. Pathways to Power: Comparative Perspectives on the Emergence of Nikkei Ethnic Political Traditions / Lane Ryo Hirabayashi 159

Part 3 Disjunctions of Nikkei Identities

Gender and Identity

11. I Woman, I Man, I Nikkei: Symbolic Construction of Femininity and Masculinity in the Japanese Community of Peru / Doris Moromisato Miasato 187

12. Migration as a Negotiation of Gender: Recent Japanese Immigrant Women in Canada / Audrey Kobayashi 205

13. Race, Gender, Ethnicity and the Narrative of National Identity in the Films of Tizuka Yamazaki / Naomi Hoki Moniz 221

The Dekasegi Phenomenon

14. The Japanese-Brazilian Dekasegi Phenomenon: An Economic Perspective / Edson Mori 237

15. The Dekasegi Phenomenon and the Education of Japanese Brazilian Children in Japanese Schools / Masato Ninomiya 249

16. The Emigration of Argentines of Japanese Descent to Japan / Marcelo G. Higa 261

Emerging Identities

17. The Nikkei Negotiation of Minority/Majority Dynamics in Peru and the United States / Steven Masami Ropp 279

18. The Uchinanchu Diaspora and the Boundary of "Nikkei" / Makoto Arakaki 296

19. Nikkeijin and Multicultural Coexistence in Japan: Kobe after the Great Earthquake / Yasuko I. Takezawa 310

Part 4 Retrospect and Prospects

20. Retrospect and Prospects / Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Akemi Kikumura-Yano, James A. Hirabayashi 333.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0804744610

0804744629

OCLC:

48761340