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Discusses the reasons Japanese people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes sidebars and activities.
Author : Rosemary Wallner
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736807975
Discusses the reasons Japanese people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes sidebars and activities.
Author : John E. Van Sant
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252051955
Shipwrecked sailors, samurai seeking a material and sometimes spiritual education, and laborers seeking to better their economic situation: these early Japanese travelers to the West occupy a little-known corner of Asian American studies. Pacific Pioneers profiles the first Japanese who resided in the United States or the Kingdom of Hawaii for a substantial period of time and the Westerners who influenced their experiences. Although Japanese immigrants did not start arriving in substantial numbers in the West until after 1880, in the previous thirty years a handful of key encounters helped shape relations between Japan and the United States. John E. Van Sant explores the motivations and accomplishments of these resourceful, sometimes visionary individuals who made important inroads into a culture quite different from their own and paved the way for the Issei and Nisei. Pacific Pioneers presents detailed biographical sketches of Japanese such as Joseph Heco, Niijima Jo, and the converts to the Brotherhood of the New Life and introduces the American benefactors, such as William Griffis, David Murray, and Thomas Lake Harris, who built relationships with their foreign visitors. Van Sant also examines the uneasy relations between Japanese laborers and sugar cane plantation magnates in Hawaii during this period and the shortlived Wakamatsu colony of Japanese tea and silk producers in California. A valuable addition to the literature, Pacific Pioneers brings to life a cast of colorful, long-forgotten characters while forging a critical link between Asian and Asian American studies.
Author : Yuji Ichioka
Publisher : New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN :
A powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who escapes to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress, she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution. Sylvie de Rosiers, as the daughter of a rich planter and an enslaved woman, enjoys the comforts of a lady in 1791 Saint-Domingue society. But while she was born to privilege, she was never fully accepted by island elites. After a violent rebellion begins the Haitian Revolution, Sylvie and her brother leave their family and old lives behind to flee unwittingly into another uprising--in austere and radical Paris. Sylvie quickly becomes enamored with the aims of the Revolution, as well as with the revolutionaries themselves--most notably Maximilien Robespierre and his mistress, Cornélie Duplay. As a rising leader and abolitionist, Robespierre sees an opportunity to exploit Sylvie's race and abandonment of her aristocratic roots as an example of his ideals, while the strong-willed Cornélie offers Sylvie safe harbor and guidance in free thought. Sylvie battles with her past complicity in a slave society and her future within this new world order as she finds herself increasingly torn between Robespierre's ideology and Cornélie's love. When the Reign of Terror descends, Sylvie must decide whether to become an accomplice while a new empire rises on the bones of innocents...or risk losing her head.
Author : Japanese American Citizens' League. Seattle Chapter
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 1969*
Category : Japanese
ISBN :
Author : Scott Ingram
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 21,14 MB
Release : 2004-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780816056880
Discusses the history of Japanese immigration to the United States and covers key issues, including the reasons for immigration, the struggles faced, and how the culture influenced Americans.
Author : Lewis K. Parker
Publisher : Powerkids Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823964635
Explores Japanese immigration to the United States from the 1880s to the present, and looks at the contributions of Japanese Americans to the culture of the United States.
Author : Valentine Stuart McClatchy
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781104135409
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Sandra O. Uyeunten
Publisher :
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 20,18 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Japanese American families
ISBN :
Author : Cheyenne N. Haney
Publisher :
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 44,3 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Immigrants
ISBN :
Author : Akemi Kikumura-Yano
Publisher : Altamira Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780759101500
Describes Japanese immigration to the Western Hemisphere over the past two hundred years.