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Autore: | Lee Shelley Sang-Hee <1975-> |
Titolo: | Claiming the oriental gateway [[electronic resource] ] : prewar Seattle and Japanese America / / Shelley Sang-Hee Lee |
Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.894956/0730797 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto geografico: | Seattle (Wash.) Social conditions 20th century |
Seattle (Wash.) Race relations | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Claiming the oriental gateway |
ISBN: | 1-4399-0213-5 |
1-4399-0215-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910790426903321 |
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