Japanese American ethnicity : in search of heritage and homeland across generations /

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Author / Creator:Tsuda, Takeyuki, author.
Imprint:New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Description:viii, 323 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10881866
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ISBN:9781479821785
1479821780
9781479810796
1479810797
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Ethnic heritage across the generations: racialization, transnationalism, and homeland
  • History and the second generation
  • The prewar Nisei: Americanization and nationalist belonging
  • The postwar Nisei: biculturalism and transnational identities
  • Racialization, citizenship, and heritage
  • Assimilation and loss of ethnic heritage among third-generation Japanese Americans
  • The struggle for racial citizenship among later-generation Japanese Americans
  • Ethnic revival among fourth-generation Japanese Americans
  • Ethnic heritage, performance, and diasporicity
  • Japanese American taiko and the remaking of tradition
  • Performative authenticity and fragmented empowerment through taiko
  • Diasporicity and Japanese Americans
  • Conclusion: Japanese Americans ethnic legacies and the future.