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Before Internment
Ichioka, Yuji. Ed(S): Chang, Gordon G.; Azuma, Eiichiro; Dirlik, Arif
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hardcover. This book is an anthology of essays by Yuji Ichioka, the foremost authority on Japanese American history, which studies Japanese American life and politics in the interwar years. Editor(s): Chang, Gordon G.; Azuma, Eiichiro; Dirlik, Arif. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 392 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 653.
This is a collection of the last essays by Yuji Ichioka, the foremost authority on Japanese-American history, who passed away two years ago. The essays focus on Japanese Americans during the interwar years and explore issues such as the nisei (American-born generation) relationship toward Japan, Japanese-American attitudes toward Japan's prewar expansionism in Asia, and the meaning of "loyalty" in a racist society—all controversial but central issues in Japanese-American history.
Ichioka draws from original sources in Japanese and English to offer an unrivaled picture of Japanese Americans in these years. Also included in this volume are an introductory essay by ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Series
Asian America
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804751476
SKU
V9780804751476
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About Ichioka, Yuji. Ed(S): Chang, Gordon G.; Azuma, Eiichiro; Dirlik, Arif
The late Yuji Ichioka was the founding father of the scholarly study of Japanese-American history. His book on the immigrant generation in America, The Issei: The World of the First-Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885-1924 (1988), is considered a classic. He invented the term Asian American, and trained many of the scholars now teaching Asian American history at colleges and universities.
Reviews for Before Internment
"Yuji Ichioka invented the term "Asian American..." This posthumous collection of essays—most of which were selected by Ichioka for a book project similar to his first book, Issei—takes a good look at where Ichioka came from as a scholar and activist, and... offers a new window on Japanese history, and the relationship between the government and overseas Japanese. Several of ... Read more