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Takeyuki Tsuda - Japanese American Ethnicity: In Search of Heritage and Homeland Across Generations - 9781479821785 - V9781479821785
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Japanese American Ethnicity: In Search of Heritage and Homeland Across Generations

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Description for Japanese American Ethnicity: In Search of Heritage and Homeland Across Generations Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 626.

Traces the contemporary ethnic experiences of Japanese Americans
As one of the oldest groups of Asian Americans in the United States, most Japanese Americans are culturally assimilated and well-integrated in mainstream American society. However, they continue to be racialized as culturally “Japanese” foreigners simply because of their Asian appearance in a multicultural America where racial minorities are expected to remain ethnically distinct. Different generations of Japanese Americans have responded to such pressures in ways that range from demands that their racial citizenship as bona fide Americans be recognized to a desire to maintain or recover their ethnic heritage and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479821785
SKU
V9781479821785
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Takeyuki Tsuda
Takeyuki Tsuda is Professor of Anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He is the editor of Diasporic Homecomings: Ethnic Return Migration in Comparative Perspective.

Reviews for Japanese American Ethnicity: In Search of Heritage and Homeland Across Generations
In drawing and reflecting upon the voices and experiences of different generational cohorts, Tsuda not only fills a void in Japanese American studies but expands our very understanding of the concept of 'ethnic heritage.' Adeptly parsing processes of assimilation, transnationalism, racialization, and multicultural discourse, Tsuda engages the factors that shape the retention and refashioning of ancestral culture.
Michael Omi,University ... Read more

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