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Japanese American Ethnicity : In Search of Heritage and Homeland Across Generations /

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 minori...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tsuda, Takeyuki (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.