Claiming the oriental gateway [[electronic resource] ] : prewar Seattle and Japanese America / / Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
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| Autore: |
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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| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Asian American history and culture.