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Lee Shelley Sang-Hee <1975-> |
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Titolo |
Claiming the oriental gateway [[electronic resource] ] : prewar Seattle and Japanese America / / Shelley Sang-Hee Lee |
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Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2011 |
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1-4399-0213-5 |
1-4399-0215-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Collana |
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Asian American history and culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Japanese Americans - Washington (State) - Seattle - History - 20th century |
Japanese Americans - Washington (State) - Seattle - Social conditions - 20th century |
Japanese Americans - Cultural assimilation - Washington (State) - Seattle - History - 20th century |
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Seattle (Wash.) Social conditions 20th century |
Seattle (Wash.) Race relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Multiethnic Seattle; 2. Making Seattle ""Cosmopolitan""; 3. Making Local Images for International Eyes: Race, Nationality, and the Seattle Camera Club, 1924-1929; 4. ""Problems of the Pacific"" in ""the Great Crucible of America"" : Public Schools in the 1920's and the 1930's; 5. ""That Splendid Medium of Free Play"" : Japanese American Sports during the Interwar Years; 6. The Eve of War; Epilogue; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Claiming the Oriental Gateway, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee explores the various intersections of urbanization, ethnic identity, and internationalism in the experience of Japanese Americans in early twentieth-century Seattle. She examines the development and self-image of the city by documenting how U.S. expansion, Asian trans-Pacific migration, and internationalism were manifested locally-and |
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