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