The Gateway to the Pacific : Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco / Meredith Oda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oda, Meredith, author.

Series:

Historical studies of urban America.

Chicago scholarship online.

Historical Studies of Urban America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese Americans--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.

Japanese Americans.

Urban renewal--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.

Urban renewal.

Ethnic neighborhoods--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.

Ethnic neighborhoods.

San Francisco (Calif.)--History--20th century.

San Francisco (Calif.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 pages).

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco's identity as the "Gateway to the Pacific," using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newfound celebration of its Japanese and other Asian American residents, its economy linked with Asia, and its favorable location for transpacific partnerships. The most conspicuous testament to San Francisco's postwar transpacific connections is the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center in the city's redeveloped Japanese-American enclave. Focusing on the development of the Center, Meredith Oda shows how this multilayered story was embedded within a larger story of the changing institutions and ideas that were shaping the city. During these formative decades, Oda argues, San Francisco's relations with and ideas about Japan were being forged within the intimate, local sites of civic and community life. This shift took many forms, including changes in city leadership, new municipal institutions, and especially transformations in the built environment. Newly friendly relations between Japan and the United States also meant that Japanese Americans found fresh, if highly constrained, job and community prospects just as the city's African Americans struggled against rising barriers. San Francisco's story is an inherently local one, but it also a broader story of a city collectively, if not cooperatively, reimagining its place in a global economy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. Japan and Japanese Americans in the Pacific Metropolis through World War II

Chapter Two. Orienting the Gateway to the Pacific: Reconsidering Japan and Reshaping Civic Identity

Chapter Three. Redeveloping Citizens: Planning a New Japanesetown

Chapter Four. Pacific Crossings: Japan, Hawai'i, and the Redefinition of Japanesetown

Chapter Five. Intermediaries with Japan: The Work of Professional Japanese Americans in the Gateway

Chapter Six. Local Struggles: Japanese American and African American Protest and Cooperation after 1960

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226592886

022659288X

OCLC:

1125192855