| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Series |
Academy series |
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American Academy of Religion academy series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Series; Enfolding Silence; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "They're Just like White Kids": Genealogy and Theory of Japanese American Non-Binary Silence; Brief Genealogy of Japanese American Silence before Immigration; Brief Genealogy of Japanese American Silence after Immigration; Non-Binary Silences; Non-Binary Silences in Japanese American Art; 1. Gardening, the Silence of Space, and the Humanity of Judgment; The History of Gardening Negotiating Multiple Forms of Oppression |
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Greg Kitajima, His Lineage of Garden Designers (Kinzuchi and Frank Fujii), and the Silence of SpaceMasumoto and Asawa on the Silence of Space; Gaimenteki Doka and Religious Ideas in the Silence of Space; Afterword and Caution; 2 Origami, the Silence of Self, and the Spirit of Vulnerability; Two Selves and the Marginal Man; A Brief History of Origami; Linda Mihara, Japanese American Origami Artist; Teaching Origami and the "Nice Girl"; Japanese American Kami; The Potential Space and the Silence of Self; The Spirit of Vulnerability; 3. Jazz, the Silence of Time, and Modes of Justice |
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Introduction to This Song of JusticeFirst Time through the Form: Japanese American Multiracial History; Repeat to the Top of the Form: The History of Jazz; Turnaround: Ma and the History of Jazz; Ensemble Section: Minidoka Swing Band; Solo: Anthony Brown; Coda: Justice and the Silence of Time; 4. Monuments, the Silence of Legacy, and Kodomo Tame Ni; Introduction to the Potential Problems of the Silence of Legacy; Japanese American Value of Monuments and Controversies over Monuments; Robert Murase's Japanese American Historical Plaza; Isamu Noguchi's To the Issei |
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Multiplicity in the Silence of LegacyEpilogue: "Whiz Kids"? Racial Shamelessness, the Model Minority, and the Future of Silence; Cycles of Racism and Corresponding Non-Binary Silences; The Future of Silence; Appendix: Background Information Sheet and Interview Questionnaire; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Japanese Americans have developed complex silences in response to social and religious marginalization. Utilizing histories and ethnographies of Japanese American arts - gardening, origami, jazz, and monuments - 'Enfolding Silence' uncovers silences that are mixtures of silences from religion, art, and oppression |
| Notes |
Previously issued in print: 2016 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 7, 2016) |
| Subject |
Japanese Americans -- Social conditions
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Japanese Americans -- Intellectual life
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Japanese Americans -- Religion
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Arts, Japanese -- United States -- History
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Silence -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
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Marginality, Social -- United States -- History
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Social change -- United States -- History
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Arts and society -- United States -- History
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Racism -- United States -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Arts and society
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Arts, Japanese
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Japanese Americans -- Religion
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Japanese Americans -- Social conditions
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Marginality, Social
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Race relations
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Racism
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Social change
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations -- History
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic book
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
American Academy of Religion.
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| ISBN |
9780190251352 |
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0190251352 |
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9780190251437 |
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0190251433 |
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