Japanese American Celebration and Conflict - A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934-1990

A history of the struggles over identity within the Japanese American community, using ethnic festivals to reveal the conflicts from the 1930s (a period of wealthy Japanese enclaves) through the WWII internment to the late 20th century influx of investment from Japan.

List of contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Problem of Racial Rearticulation
Part 1: Enclave
1. Succeeding Immigrants
Ethnic Leadership and the Origins of Nisei Week
2. Rise and Fall of Biculturalism
Consumption, Socialization, and Americanism
Part 2: Camp
3. War and the American Front
Collaboration, Protest, and Class in the Internment Crisis
Part 3: Communities
4. Defining Integration
The Return of Nisei Week and Remaking of Japanese American Identity
5. The New Cosmopolitanism
From Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy
6. Nationalisms and Internationalisms
New Left, Ethnic Rights, and Shopping Centers

Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

About the author

Lon Kurashige is Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.

Summary

Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and cultures? In exploring the Japanese American experience, the author recasts this tangled debate by examining what assimilation and ethnic retention have meant to a particular community over a long period of time.

Product details

• Authors: Lon Kurashige, Kurashige Lon
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.06.2002
• EAN: 9780520227439
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22743-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: American Crossroads; American Crossroads
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, Ethnic Studies, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, PERFORMING ARTS / General, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Regional / International studies, History of the Americas, Physical anthropology, Pageants, parades, festivals, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General