Format:
Online-Ressource (xxii, 274 p)
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ill
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520227433
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0520227425
Series Statement:
American crossroads 8
Content:
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, Lon Kurashige recasts this tangled debate by examining what assimilation and ethnic retention have meant to a particular community over a long period of time
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-263) and index
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Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Problem of Racial Rearticulation; One: Succeeding Immigrants: Ethnic Leadership and the Origins of Nisei Week; Two: Rise and Fall of Biculturalism: Consumption, Socialization, and Americanism; Three: War and the American Front: Collaboration, Protest, and Class in the Internment Crisis; Four: Defining Integration: The Return of Nisei Week and Remaking of Japanese American Identity; Five: The New Cosmopolitanism: From Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy
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Six: Nationalism and Internationalism: New Left, Ethnic RIghts, and Shopping CentersConclusion; Notes
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520227439
Additional Edition:
Print version Japanese American Celebration and Conflict : A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934-1990
Language:
English
