Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies : Conversations on Race and Racializations / Yasuko Takezawa, Gary Y. Okihiro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Azuma, Eiichiro.

Geiger, Andrea.

Ishii, Noriko K.

Izumi, Masumi.

Kawakami, Sachiko.

Konno, Yuko.

Kurashige, Lon.

Matsuda, Mari J.

Matsumoto, Valerie J.

Matsumoto, Yuko.

Minamikawa, Fuminori.

Nakamura, Rika.

Okihiro, Gary Y.

Okihiro, Gary Y., editor.

Omi, Michael.

Takeda, Okiyoshi.

Takezawa, Yasuko, editor.

Takezawa, Yasuko.

Tsukuda, Yoko.

Ueunten, Wesley.

Williams, Duncan Ryuken.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese Americans--Study and teaching.

Japanese Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (453 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies is a unique collection of essays derived from a series of dialogues held in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Los Angeles on the issues of racializations, gender, communities, and the positionalities of scholars involved in Japanese American studies. The book brings together some of the most renowned scholars of the discipline in Japan and North America. It seeks to overcome past constraints of dialogues between Japan- and U.S.-based scholars by providing opportunities for candid, extended conversations among its contributors.While each contribution focuses on the field of "Japanese American" studies, approaches to the subject vary-ranging from national and village archives, community newspapers, personal letters, visual art, and personal interviews. Research papers are divided into six sections: Racializations, Communities, Intersections, Borderlands, Reorientations, and Teaching. Papers by one or two Japan-based scholar(s) are paired with a U.S.-based scholar, reflecting the book's intention to promote dialogue and mutuality across national formations. The collection is also notable for featuring underrepresented communities in Japanese American studies, such as Okinawan "war brides," Koreans, women, and multiracials. Essays on subject positions raise fundamental questions: Is it possible to engage in a truly equal dialogue when English is the language used in the conversation and in a field where English-language texts predominate? How can scholars foster a mutual respect when U.S.-centrism prevails in the subject matter and in the field's scholarly hierarchy? Understanding foundational questions that are now frequently unstated assumptions will help to disrupt hierarchies in scholarship and work toward more equal engagements across national divides. Although the study of Japanese Americans has reached a stage of maturity, contributors to this volume recognize important historical and contemporary neglects in that historiography and literature. Japanese America and its scholarly representations, they declare, are much too deep, rich, and varied to contain in a singular narrative or subject position.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note to the Reader

Acknowledgments

TRANS-PACIFIC Japanese American Studies

Introduction / Takezawa, Yasuko / Okihiro, Gary Y.

PART I: ORIENTATION

CHAPTER 1: Shifting Grounds in Japanese American Studies Reconsidering "Race" and "Class" in a Trans-Pacific Geopolitical-Historical Context / Takezawa, Yasuko

PART II: RACIALIZATIONS

CHAPTER 2: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being The Contemporary Racialization of Japanese/ Asian Americans / Omi, Michael

CHAPTER 3: Negotiating Categories and Transgressing (Mixed-) Race Identities The Art and Narratives of Roger Shimomura, Laura Kina, and Shizu Saldamando / Takezawa, Yasuko

PART III: COMMUNITIES

CHAPTER 4: Trans-Pacific Localism and the Creation of a Fishing Colony Pre-World War II Taiji Immigrants on Terminal Island, California / Konno, Yuko

CHAPTER 5: Vernacular Representations of Race and the Making of a Japanese Ethnoracial Community in Los Angeles / Minamikawa, Fuminori

CHAPTER 6: Negotiating the Boundaries of Race, Caste, and Mibun Meiji-era Diplomatic and Immigrant Responses to North American Categories of Exclusion / Geiger, Andrea

PART IV: INTERSECTIONS

CHAPTER 7: Americanization and Beika Gender and Racialization of the Issei Community in California before World War II / Matsumoto, Yuko

CHAPTER 8: Sansei Women and the Gendering of Yellow Power in Southern California, 1960s-1970s / Matsumoto, Valerie J.

PART V: BORDERLANDS

CHAPTER 9: Nakayoshi Group Postwar Okinawan Women's Articulation of Identity in America / Ueunten, Wesley

CHAPTER 10: What Brings Korean Immigrants to Japantown? Commodifying Racial Differences in the Age of Globalization / Kawakami, Sachiko

PART VI: REORIENTATIONS

CHAPTER 11: The Making of a Japanese American Race, and Why Are There No "Immigrants" in Postwar Nikkei History and Community? The Problems of Generation, Region, and Citizenship in Japanese America / Azuma, Eiichiro

CHAPTER 12: Reorienting Asian American Studies in Asia and the Pacific / Nakamura, Rika

PART VII: PEDAGOGIES

CHAPTER 13: Teaching Asian American Studies in Japan Challenges and Possibilities / Izumi, Masumi

CHAPTER 14: Japanese American Progressives A Case Study in Identity Formation / Matsuda, Mari

PART VIII: DIALOGUING SUBJECT POSITIONS

Notes from Shinagawa, July 28-29, 2012 / Okihiro, Gary Y.

Thoughts on Positionality / Ishii, Noriko K.

Asian American History across the Pacific / Kurashige, Lon

Japanese Americans in Academia and Political Discourse in Japan / Takeda, Okiyoshi

Location, Positionality, and Community Studying and Teaching Japanese America in the United States and Japan / Tsukuda, Yoko

Positions In-Between Hapa, Buddhist, and Japanese American Studies / Williams, Duncan Ryûken

Toward More Equal Dialogue / Takezawa, Yasuko

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

0-8248-7306-8

0-8248-6762-9

OCLC:

958655911