Title Between two empires : race, history, and transnationalism in Japanese America / Eiichiro Azuma

Published New York : Oxford University Press, [2005] ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 306 pages) : illustrations Contents Immigrant transnationalism between two empires -- I: Multiple beginnings -- Mercantilists, colonialists, and laborers: heterogeneous origins of Japanese America -- II: Convergences and divergences -- Re-forming the immigrant masses: the transnational construction of a moral citizenry -- Zaibei doho: racial exclusion and the making of an American minority -- III: Pioneers and successors -- "Pioneers of Japanese development": history making and racial identity -- The problem of generation: preparing the nisei for the future -- Wages of immigrant internationalism: nisei in the ancestral land -- IV: Complexities of immigrant nationalism -- Helping Japan, helping ourselves: the meaning of issei patriotism -- Ethnic nationalism and racial struggle: interethnic relations in the California delta -- Wartime racisms, state nationalisms, and the collapse of immigrant transnationalism Summary "Before World War II, Japanese immigrants, or Issei, forged a unique transnational identity between their native land and the United States. Whether merchants, community leaders, or rural farmers, Japanese immigrants shared a collective racial identity as aliens ineligible for American citizenship, even as they worked to form communities in the American West. At the same time, Imperial Japan considered Issei and their descendents part of its racial expansion abroad and enlisted them to further their nationalist goals. Azuma shows how Japanese immigrants negotiated their racial and class positions alongside white Americans, Chinese, and Filipinos at a time when Japan was fighting their countries of origin. Utilizing rare Japanese and English language sources, Azuma stresses the tight grips, as well as the clashing influences, the Japanese and American states exercised over Japanese immigrants, and how these immigrants and their descendants created identities that diverged from both national narratives."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-297) and index Notes Mode of access: World Wide Web. FPeU FJUNF FOFT FTS FMFIU FBoU Asian American Studies Book Award--History, 2007 Print version record Subject Japanese Americans -- West (U.S.) -- History Japanese Americans -- West (U.S.) -- Social conditions Japanese Americans -- West (U.S.) -- Ethnic identity Immigrants -- West (U.S.) -- Social conditions Children of immigrants -- West (U.S.) -- Social conditions Transnationalism -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies. Children of immigrants -- Social conditions Immigrants -- Social conditions Japanese Americans Japanese Americans -- Ethnic identity Japanese Americans -- Social conditions Race relations International relations Transnationalism Japanners. Immigranten. Rassenverhoudingen. SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- Race relations Japan -- Relations -- United States United States -- Relations -- Japan Subject Japan United States West United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780198036128 0198036124 1423720385 9781423720386 0195159403 9780195159400 0195159411 9780195159417

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