Trans-Pacific Japanese American studies : conversations on race and racializations / edited by Yasuko Takezawa and Gary Y. Okihiro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Takezawa, Yasuko I., 1957- editor.

Okihiro, Gary Y., 1945-2024, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese Americans--Study and teaching.

Japanese Americans.

Physical Description:

xii, 430 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]

Contents:

Some historical and epistemological issues in Japanese American studies : reconsidering "race" and "class" in a trans-Pacific geopolitical-historical context / Yasuko Takezawa

The unbearable whiteness of being : the contemporary racialization of Japanese/Asian America / Michael Omi

Negotiating categories and transgressing (mixed) race identities : the artworks and narratives of Roger Shimomura, Laura Kina, and Shizu Saldamando / Yasuko Takezawa

Trans-Pacific localism and the creation of a fishing colony : pre-World War II Taiji immigrants on Terminal Island, California / Yuko Konno

Vernacular representations of race and the making of an ethnoracial community of Japanese in Los Angeles / Fuminori Minamikawa

Negotiating the boundaries of race and caste : Meiji diplomatic and immigrant responses to North American categories of exclusion / Andrea Geiger

Americanization and "beika" : gender and racialization of the issei community in California before World War II / Yuko Matsumoto

Sansei women and the gendering of yellow power in southern California, 1960s-1970s / Valerie J. Matsumoto

Nakayoshi Group : post-war Okinawan women's articulation of identity in America / Wesley Ueunten

What brings Korean immigrants to Japantown? : commodifying racial differences in the age of globalization / Sachiko Kawakami

The making of a Japanese American race, and why are there no "immigrants" in postwar nikkei history and community? : the problems of generation, region, and citizenship in Japanese America / Eiichiro Azuma

Constructing a place of deconstruction, conversation, and mutual learning : towards a project of Asian American studies in "Asia" / Rika Nakamura

Teaching Asian American studies in Japan : challenges and possibilities / Masumi Izumi

Japanese American progressives : a case study in identity formation / Mari Matsuda

Dialoguing Japanese American studies / Gary Y. Okihiro

Thoughts on positionality / Noriko K. Ishii

Asian American history across the Pacific / Lon Kurashige

Thoughts on "nikkei studies and beyond" / Okiyoshi Takeda

Location, positionality, and community : studying Asian American history across the Pacific / Yoko Tsukuda

Positions in-between : hapa, Buddhist, and Japanese American studies / Duncan Ryuken Williams

Toward more equal dialogue / Yasuko Takezawa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780824847586

082484758X

OCLC:

933863829