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The unsung great : stories of extraordinary Japanese Americans / Greg Robinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Greg, 1966- author.
- Series:
- Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies
- The Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese Americans--Biography.
- Japanese Americans.
- Japanese Americans--History.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Nichi Bei weekly.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Mixed-Race Japanese Americans: Family Stories p. 7
- Hapa Japanese America: An Overview p. 7
- Takamine Family p. 10
- Hirose Family IS
- Ohnick Family p. 22
- Thomson Family p. 30
- Sono Osato and Timothy Osato p. 39
- How John Okada Was Born p. 47
- First Impressions: Early Reviews of John Okada's No-No Boy p. 52
- Sanae Kawaguchi and Mitsu Yamamoto p. 57
- Mary Oyama Mittwer and Henry Mittwer p. 62
- Ambrose Amadeus Uchiyamada p. 72
- K. K. and Clarke Kawakami, Journalists (with Chris Suh) p. 76
- Chapter 3 Wartime Confinement and Japanese Americans: Nikkei Stories p. 87
- Japanese Americans and Pearl Harbor: Another Sort of Infamy p. 87
- Tsuyoshi Matsumoto: Teacher and Artist p. 92
- Toru Matsumoto: Brother and Stranger p. 97
- Parallel Wars: Japanese American and Japanese Canadian Internment Films p. 102
- The Unknown History of the Japanese American Committee for Democracy p. 110
- Interracial Marriage and Wartime Japanese American Confinement p. 116
- The Unknown History of Japanese Internment in Panama (with Maxime Minne) p. 119
- Chapter 4 Wartime p. 125
- Japanese Americans, Dorothy Day, and the Catholic Worker (with Matthieu Langlois) p. 125
- Brother Theophane Walsh: A Quiet Hero (with Jonathan Van Harmelen) p. 130
- Pearl S. Buck, Defender of the Nisei p. 133
- First Lady of the World? Reconsidering Eleanor Roosevelt and Japanese Americans p. 137
- Wartime Solidarity between Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans p. 142
- Woody Guthrie p. 148
- Forrest LaViolette and the Paradoxes of Wartime Confinement p. 152
- Chapter 5 Political Activism and Civil Rights p. 157
- Clifford Uyeda and Ben Kuroki: Nisei Conservatives p. 157
- Japanese Americans and the McCarran-Walter Act p. 163
- Loren Miller: African American Defender of Japanese Americans p. 169
- Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga p. 172
- Jean Sadako King p. 178
- Diverging Paths: Redress in the United States and Canada p. 181
- Chapter 6 Arts and Sciences p. 187
- Taro and Mitsu Yashima (with Valerie Matsumoto) p. 187
- Yoichi Okamoto p. 192
- Prewar Nisei Films and Filmmakers p. 197
- Sueo Serisawa p. 200
- Dr. Newton Wesley: Inventor of the Contact Lens p. 205
- Eugenie Clark p. 208
- Chapter 7 The Queer Heritage of Japanese Americans p. 213
- The Archaeology of Queer Nikkei History p. 213
- The Evolution of Community Opinion and the Rise of Homophobia p. 217
- Japanese Americans Coming Out in the 1970s: The Community Forum p. 220
- Pioneering Nisei Lesbians p. 224
- Military Service and the Shift to Equal Rights p. 227
- Marsha Aizumi's Two Spirits, One Heart p. 230
- Chapter 8 Other Places, Other Lives p. 233
- Japanese Americans in Mobile, Alabama p. 233
- Japanese Americans in Upstate New York p. 237
- Be a Good Sport about It: Nikkei Athletes in Louisiana p. 243
- The Ito Sisters of Chicago p. 248
- Jitsuichi Masuoka: Issei Sociologist at Fisk University p. 252
- The Adventures of T. Scott Miyakawa p. 256.
- Notes:
- An anthology of articles that originally appeared in the column, "The Great Unknown and the Unknown Great," in the Nichi Bei Weekly, and several articles that appeared in other periodicals, as well as some previously unpublished material.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 17, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Robinson, Greg, 1966- The unsung great
- ISBN:
- 9780295747972
- 0295747978
- Publisher Number:
- 40030252647
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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