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Distant islands : the Japanese American community in New York City, 1876-1930s /

"The turn of the century New York Japanese American community was a composite of several micro communities divided along status, class, geographic, and religious lines. Using primary sources Inouye tells the stories of the professional elites, small business owners, working-class, laborers, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Inouye, Daniel H.
Other Authors: Reimers, David M. (éditeur intellectuel.)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2018]
Series:George and Sakaye Aratani Nikkei in the Americas series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Rising Sun and the Oceanic group
  • A divided and scattered people : the dominant tier, 1885/1940
  • A divided and scattered people : the in-between second tier
  • A divided and scattered people : spatial separation and lower tiers
  • The floating student sphere
  • "Community" role of ethnic-based organizations
  • Social adaptation of Japanese Buddhism
  • The unifying ethnic and cultural force of issei Protestant churches.