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Between two empires : race, history, and transnationalism in Japanese America / Eiichiro Azuma.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Azuma, Eiichiro.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese Americans--West (U.S.)--History.
- Japanese Americans.
- Japanese Americans--West (U.S.)--Social conditions.
- Japanese Americans--Ethnic identity--West (U.S.).
- Immigrants--West (U.S.)--Social conditions.
- Immigrants.
- Children of immigrants--West (U.S.)--Social conditions.
- Children of immigrants.
- Transnationalism--History.
- Transnationalism.
- West (U.S.)--Race relations.
- West (U.S.).
- Japan--Relations--United States.
- Japan.
- United States--Relations--Japan.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Between Two Empires' probes the complexities of prewar Japanese American community to show how Japanese in America occupied an in-between space between American nationality & Japanese racial identity.
- Contents:
- Contents; Note on the Translation and Transliteration of Japanese Names and Words; Introduction: Immigrant Transnationalism between Two Empires; Part I: Multiple Beginnings; 1. Mercantilists, Colonialists, and Laborers: Heterogeneous Origins of Japanese America; Part II: Convergences and Divergences; 2. Re-Forming the Immigrant Masses: The Transnational Construction of a Moral Citizenry; 3. Zaibei Doho: Racial Exclusion and the Making of an American Minority; Part III: Pioneers and Successors; 4. "Pioneers of Japanese Development": History Making and Racial Identity
- 5. The Problem of Generation: Preparing the Nisei for the Future6. Wages of Immigrant Internationalism: Nisei in the Ancestral Land; Part IV: Complexities of Immigrant Nationalism; 7. Helping Japan, Helping Ourselves: The Meaning of Issei Patriotism; 8. Ethnic Nationalism and Racial Struggle: Interethnic Relations in the California Delta; Epilogue: Wartime Racisms, State Nationalisms, and the Collapse of Immigrant Transnationalism; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-297) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-988280-0
- 0-19-515941-1
- 1-4337-0007-7
- 1-280-50302-5
- 0-19-803612-4
- 9786610503025
- OCLC:
- 61341372
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