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Claiming the oriental gateway : prewar Seattle and Japanese America / Shelley Sang-Hee Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Shelley Sang-Hee, 1975-
- Series:
- Asian American history and culture.
- Asian American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle--History--20th century.
- Japanese Americans.
- Japanese Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle--Social conditions--20th century.
- Japanese Americans--Cultural assimilation--Washington (State)--Seattle--History--20th century.
- Seattle (Wash.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Seattle (Wash.).
- Seattle (Wash.)--Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Claiming the Oriental Gateway, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee explores the various intersections of urbanization, ethnic identity, and internationalism in the experience of Japanese Americans in early twentieth-century Seattle. She examines the development and self-image of the city by documenting how U.S. expansion, Asian trans-Pacific migration, and internationalism were manifested locally-and how these forces affected residents' relationships with one another and their surroundings.Lee details the significant role Japanese Americans-both immigrants and U.S. born citizens
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Multiethnic Seattle; 2. Making Seattle ""Cosmopolitan""; 3. Making Local Images for International Eyes: Race, Nationality, and the Seattle Camera Club, 1924-1929; 4. ""Problems of the Pacific"" in ""the Great Crucible of America"" : Public Schools in the 1920's and the 1930's; 5. ""That Splendid Medium of Free Play"" : Japanese American Sports during the Interwar Years; 6. The Eve of War; Epilogue; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439902134
- 1439902135
- 9781439902158
- 1439902151
- OCLC:
- 699510395
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