Between two empires [[electronic resource] ] : race, history, and transnationalism in Japanese America / / Eiichiro Azuma

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792259903321
• Autore: Azuma Eiichiro
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• ISBN: 0-19-988280-0; 0-19-515941-1; 1-4337-0007-7; 1-280-50302-5; 0-19-803612-4; 9786610503025
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 973/.04956
• Soggetti: Japanese Americans - West (U.S.) - History; Japanese Americans - West (U.S.) - Social conditions; Japanese Americans - Ethnic identity - West (U.S.); Immigrants - West (U.S.) - Social conditions; Children of immigrants - West (U.S.) - Social conditions; Transnationalism - History; West (U.S.) Race relations; Japan Relations United States; United States Relations Japan
• 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 (p. 279-297) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Note on the Translation and Transliteration of Japanese Names and Words; Introduction: Immigrant Transnationalism between Two Empires; Part I: Multiple Beginnings; 1. Mercantilists, Colonialists, and Laborers: Heterogeneous Origins of Japanese America; Part II: Convergences and Divergences; 2. Re-Forming the Immigrant Masses: The Transnational Construction of a Moral Citizenry; 3. Zaibei Doho: Racial Exclusion and the Making of an American Minority; Part III: Pioneers and Successors; 4. "Pioneers of Japanese Development": History Making and Racial Identity; 5. The Problem of Generation: Preparing the Nisei for the Future6. Wages of Immigrant Internationalism: Nisei in the Ancestral Land; Part IV: Complexities of Immigrant Nationalism; 7. Helping Japan, Helping Ourselves: The Meaning of Issei Patriotism; 8. Ethnic Nationalism and Racial Struggle: Interethnic Relations in the California Delta; Epilogue: Wartime Racisms, State Nationalisms, and the Collapse of Immigrant Transnationalism; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Between Two Empires' probes the complexities of prewar Japanese American community to show how Japanese in America occupied an in-between space between American nationality & Japanese racial identity.