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Author Tsuda, Takeyuki, author.

Title Japanese American ethnicity : in search of heritage and homeland across generations / Takeyuki Tsuda.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2016]

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  973.04956 T882J    Check Shelf
Description viii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Ethnic heritage across the generations: racialization, transnationalism, and homeland -- History and the second generation -- The prewar Nisei: Americanization and nationalist belonging -- The postwar Nisei: biculturalism and transnational identities -- Racialization, citizenship, and heritage -- Assimilation and loss of ethnic heritage among third-generation Japanese Americans -- The struggle for racial citizenship among later-generation Japanese Americans -- Ethnic revival among fourth-generation Japanese Americans -- Ethnic heritage, performance, and diasporicity -- Japanese American taiko and the remaking of tradition -- Performative authenticity and fragmented empowerment through taiko -- Diasporicity and Japanese Americans -- Conclusion: Japanese Americans ethnic legacies and the future.
Subject Japanese Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Japanese Americans -- Cultural assimilation.
Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
United States -- Race relations.
Taiko (Drum ensemble) -- United States -- History.
Children of immigrants -- United States.
Japan -- Emigration and immigration.
United States -- Emigration and immigration.
Children of immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00855365
Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690
Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
Japanese Americans -- Cultural assimilation. (OCoLC)fst00981448
Japanese Americans -- Ethnic identity. (OCoLC)fst00981454
Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs. (OCoLC)fst00981480
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Taiko (Drum ensemble) (OCoLC)fst01738254
Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781479821785 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
1479821780 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
9781479810796 (paperback ;) (alkaline paper)
1479810797 (paperback ;) (alkaline paper)
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