Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 430 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780824867621
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0824867629
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9780824873066
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0824873068
Inhalt:
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies is a unique collection of essays derived from a series of dialogues held in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Los Angeles on the issues of racializations, gender, communities, and the positionalities of scholars involved in Japanese American studies. The book brings together some of the most renowned scholars of the discipline in Japan and North America. It seeks to overcome past constraints of dialogues between Japan- and U.S.-based scholars by providing opportunities for candid, extended conversations among its contributors. While each contribution focuses on the field of "Japanese American" studies, approaches to the subject vary--ranging from national and village archives, community newspapers, personal letters, visual art, and personal interviews. Research papers are divided into six sections: Racializations, Communities, Intersections, Borderlands, Reorientations, and Teaching. Papers by one or two Japan-based scholar(s) are paired with a U.S.-based scholar, reflecting the book's intention to promote dialogue and mutuality across national formations. The collection is also notable for featuring underrepresented communities in Japanese American studies, such as Okinawan "war brides," Koreans, women, and multiracials. Essays on subject positions raise fundamental questions: Is it possible to engage in a truly equal dialogue when English is the language used in the conversation and in a field where English-language texts predominate? How can scholars foster a mutual respect when U.S.-centrism prevails in the subject matter and in the field's scholarly hierarchy? Understanding foundational questions that are now frequently unstated assumptions will help to disrupt hierarchies in scholarship and work toward more equal engagements across national divides. Although the study of Japanese Americans has reached a stage of maturity, contributors to this volume recognize important historical and contemporary neglects in that historiography and literature. Japanese America and its scholarly representations, they declare, are much too deep, rich, and varied to contain in a singular narrative or subject position
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Some historical and epistemological issues in Japanese American studies : reconsidering "race" and "class" in a trans-Pacific geopolitical-historical context / Yasuko Takezawa -- The unbearable whiteness of being : the contemporary racialization of Japanese/Asian America / Michael Omi -- Negotiating categories and transgressing (mixed) race identities : the artworks and narratives of Roger Shimomura, Laura Kina, and Shizu Saldamando / Yasuko Takezawa -- Trans-Pacific localism and the creation of a fishing colony : pre-World War II Taiji immigrants on Terminal Island, California / Yuko Konno -- Vernacular representations of race and the making of an ethnoracial community of Japanese in Los Angeles / Fuminori Minamikawa -- Negotiating the boundaries of race and caste : Meiji diplomatic and immigrant responses to North American categories of exclusion / Andrea Geiger -- Americanization and "beika" : gender and racialization of the issei community in California before World War II / Yuko Matsumoto -- Sansei women and the gendering of yellow power in southern California, 1960s-1970s / Valerie J. Matsumoto -- Nakayoshi Group : post-war Okinawan women's articulation of identity in America / Wesley Ueunten -- What brings Korean immigrants to Japantown? : commodifying racial differences in the age of globalization / Sachiko Kawakami -- The making of a Japanese American race, and why are there no "immigrants" in postwar nikkei history and community? : the problems of generation, region, and citizenship in Japanese America / Eiichiro Azuma -- Constructing a place of deconstruction, conversation, and mutual learning : towards a project of Asian American studies in "Asia" / Rika Nakamura -- Teaching Asian American studies in Japan : challenges and possibilities / Masumi Izumi -- Japanese American progressives : a case study in identity formation / Mari Matsuda -- Dialoguing Japanese American studies / Gary Y. Okihiro -- Thoughts on positionality / Noriko K. Ishii -- Asian American history across the Pacific / Lon Kurashige -- Thoughts on "nikkei studies and beyond" / Okiyoshi Takeda -- Location, positionality, and community : studying Asian American history across the Pacific / Yoko Tsukuda -- Positions in-between : hapa, Buddhist, and Japanese American studies / Duncan Ryuken Williams -- Toward more equal dialogue / Yasuko Takezawa.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780824847586
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 082484758X
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Trans-Pacific Japanese American studies Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016] ISBN 9780824847586
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
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