Book Description
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 : Lewis K. Parker
Publisher : Powerkids Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 30,26 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 : Lewis K. Parker
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 2002-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780757858383
Author : Michael R. Jin
Publisher : Asian America
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503628311
From the 1920s to the eve of the Pacific War in 1941, more than 50,000 young second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) embarked on transpacific journeys to the Japanese Empire, putting an ocean between themselves and pervasive anti-Asian racism in the American West. Born U.S. citizens but treated as unwelcome aliens, this contingent of Japanese Americans--one in four U.S.-born Nisei--came in search of better lives but instead encountered a world shaped by increasingly volatile relations between the U.S. and Japan. Based on transnational and bilingual research in the United States and Japan, Michael R. Jin recuperates the stories of this unique group of American emigrants at the crossroads of U.S. and Japanese empire. From the Jim Crow American West to the Japanese colonial frontiers in Asia, and from internment camps in America to Hiroshima on the eve of the atomic bombing, these individuals redefined ideas about home, identity, citizenship, and belonging as they encountered multiple social realities on both sides of the Pacific. Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless examines the deeply intertwined histories of Asian exclusion in the United States, Japanese colonialism in Asia, and volatile geopolitical changes in the Pacific world that converged in the lives of Japanese American migrants.
Author : Scott Ingram
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1438103603
The United States is truly a nation of immigrants, or as the poet Walt Whitman once said, a nation of nations. Spanning the time from when the Europeans first came to the New World to the present day, the new Immigration to the United States set conveys the excitement of these stories to young people. Beginning with a brief preface to the set written by general editor Robert Asher that discusses some of the broad reasons why people came to the New World, both as explorers and settlers, each book's narrative highlights the themes, people, places, and events that were important to each immigrant group. In an engaging, informative manner, each volume describes what members of a particular group found when they arrived in the United States as well as where they settled. Historical information and background on the various communities present life as it was lived at the time they arrived. The books then trace the group's history and current status in the United States. Each volume includes photographs and illustrations such as passports and other artifacts of immigration, as well as quotes from original source materials. Box features highlight special topics or people, and each book is rounded out with a glossary, timeline, further reading list, and index.
Author : Robert Arden Wilson
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN :
Traces the history of Japanese Americans from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
Author : Rigby
Publisher : Rigby Education
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 10,3 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780757824623
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 : Yamato Ichihashi
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 1915
Category : California
ISBN :
Author : Paul R. Spickard
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0813544335
Since 1855, nearly half a million Japanese immigrants have settled in the United States, and today more than twice that number claim Japanese ancestry. While these immigrants worked hard, established networks, and repeatedly distinguished themselves as entrepreneurs, they also encountered harsh discrimination. Nowhere was this more evident than on the West Coast during World War II, when virtually the entire population of Japanese Americans was forced into internment camps solely on the basis of ethnicity.
Author : Sidney Xu Lu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 17,12 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1108482422
Shows how Japanese anxiety about overpopulation was used to justify expansion, blurring lines between migration and settler colonialism. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author : Julie Otsuka
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307430219
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times. On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty incarceration camp in the Utah desert. In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism. When the Emperor Was Divine is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today's headlines.