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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452742103321

Autore

Lee Shelley Sang-Hee <1975->

Titolo

Claiming the oriental gateway [[electronic resource] ] : prewar Seattle and Japanese America / / Shelley Sang-Hee Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-4399-0213-5

1-4399-0215-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Asian American history and culture

Disciplina

305.894956/0730797

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Seattle (Wash.) Social conditions 20th century

Seattle (Wash.) Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



how these forces affected residents' relationships with one another and their surroundings.Lee details the significant role Japanese Americans-both immigrants and U.S. born citizens