In Search of Our Frontier : Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire / Eiichiro Azuma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Azuma, Eiichiro, Author.

Series:

Asia Pacific modern ; 17.

Asia Pacific Modern ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese--North America--History.

Japanese.

Imperialism.

Transnationalism.

Japan--Colonies--History.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 353 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese America with Japan's colonial empire through the exchange of migrant bodies, expansionist ideas, colonial expertise, and capital in the Asia-Pacific basin before World War II. The trajectories of Japanese transpacific migrants exemplified a prevalent national structure of thought and practice that not only functioned to shore up the backbone of Japan's empire building but also promoted the borderless quest for Japanese overseas development. Eiichiro Azuma offers new interpretive perspectives that will allow readers to understand Japanese settler colonialism's capacity to operate outside the aegis of the home empire.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Transpacific Japanese Migration, White American Racism, and Japan's Adaptive Settler Colonialism

1. Immigrant Frontiersmen in America and the Origins of Japanese Settler Colonialism

2. Vanguard of an Expansive Japan: Knowledge Producers, Frontier Trotters, and Settlement Builders from across the Pacific

3. Transpacific Migrants and the Blurring Boundaries of State and Private Settler Colonialism

4. US Immigration Exclusion, Japanese America, and Transmigrants on Japan's Brazilian Frontiers

5. Japanese California and Its Colonial Diaspora: Translocal Manchuria Connections

6. Japanese Hawai'i and Its Tropical Nexus: Translocal Remigration to Colonial Taiwan and the Nan'yō

7. Japanese Pioneers in America and the Making of Expansionist Orthodoxy in Imperial Japan

8. The Call of Blood: Japanese American Citizens and the Education of the Empire's Future "Frontier Fighters"

Epilogue: The Afterlife of Japanese Settler Colonialism

Glossary of Japanese Names: Remigrants from the Continental United States and Hawai'i

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520973077 (Proquest Ebook Central)

9780520973077

0520973070

OCLC:

1084620358