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:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Japanese Americans -- Ethnic identity. Japanese Americans -- Cultural assimilation. Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs. Taiko (Drum ensemble) -- United States -- History. Children of immigrants -- United States. Children of immigrants. Emigration and immigration. Ethnic relations. Japanese Americans -- Cultural assimilation. Japanese Americans -- Ethnic identity. Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs. Race relations. Taiko (Drum ensemble) United States -- Ethnic relations. United States -- Race relations. Japan -- Emigration and immigration. United States -- Emigration and immigration. Japan. United States. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12540683

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ISBN:	9781479834976 1479834971 9781479821785 1479821780 9781479810796 1479810797
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	As members of one of the oldest groups of Asian Americans in the United States, most Japanese Americans are culturally assimilated into mainstream American society. However, they continue to be racialized as culturally "Japanese" foreigners in a multicultural America in which racial minorities are expected to remain ethnically distinct. In Japanese American Ethnicity, Takeyuki Tsuda explores the contemporary ethnic experiences of Japanese Americans from the second to the fourth generations and the extent to which they remain connected to their ancestral cultural heritage. Tsuda argues that the ethnicity of immigrant-descent minorities does not simply follow a linear trajectory in which cultural assimilation increasingly erodes the significant of ethnic heritage and identity over the generations. Instead each new generation of Japanese Americans has negotiated its own ethnic positionality in different ways. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with Japanese American in San Diego and Phoenix, Tsuda also place Japanese Americans is transnational and diasporic context, and analyzes the performance of ethnic heritage through the examples of taiko drumming ensembles. He shows that young Japanese Americans today are reviving their cultural heritage and embracing its salience in their daily lives more than the previous generations have done.
Other form:	Print version: Tsuda, Takeyuki. Japanese American ethnicity. New York : New York University Press, [2016] 9781479821785

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.

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

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