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11%OFFDavid K. Yoo - Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-49 (Asian American Experience) - 9780252068225 - V9780252068225
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Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-49 (Asian American Experience)

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Description for Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-49 (Asian American Experience) paperback. The place occupied by Japanese Americans within the annals of US history has consisted mainly of a cameo appearance as victims of incarceration after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This work examines how the second generation - the Nisei - has shaped its identity and negotiated its place within American society. Editor(s): Daniels, Roger. Series: The Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; GTB; JFC; JFFN; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.

The place occupied by Japanese Americans within the annals of United States history often begins and ends with their cameo appearance as victims of incarceration after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In this provocative work, David K. Yoo broadens the scope of Japanese American history to examine how the second generation—the Nisei—shaped its identity and negotiated its place within American society. 

Tracing the emergence of a dynamic Nisei subculture, Yoo shows how the foundations laid during the 1920s and 1930s helped many Nisei adjust to the upheaval of the concentration camps. Schools, racial-ethnic churches, and the immigrant press served not merely ... Read more

A thoughtful consideration of the gray area between accommodation and resistance, Growing Up Nisei reveals the struggles and humanity of a forgotten generation of Japanese Americans.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
The Asian American Experience
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252068225
SKU
V9780252068225
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About David K. Yoo
David K. Yoo is a professor of Asian American studies and history at UCLA. His books include Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903-1945.

Reviews for Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-49 (Asian American Experience)
"Yoo has wrought a lively and innovative portrait of California's Nisei, the second generation Japanese Americans. Treating the decades between the passage of the 1924 Immigration Act and the 1949 trial of Iva Toguri, Yoo's account is knit together by a careful examination of Nisei discourses on identity that occurred in and around key community institutions: ethnic schools, churches, and ... Read more

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