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Japanese American Ethnicity - The Persistence of Community (Paperback)
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Japanese American Ethnicity - The Persistence of Community (Paperback)
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Why do some groups retain their ethnicity as they become
assimilated into mainstream American life while others do not? This
study employs both historical sources and contemporary survey data
to explain the seeming paradox of why Japanese Americans have
maintained high levels of ethnic community involvement while
becoming structurally assimilated. Most traditional approaches to
the study of ethnicity in the United States are based on the
European immigrant experience and conclude that a zero-sum
relationship exists between assimilation and retention of
ethnicity: community solidarity weakens as structural assimilation
grows stronger. Japanese Americans, however, like American Jews, do
not fit this pattern. The basic thesis of this book is that the
maintenance of ethnic community solidarity, the process of
assimilation, and the reactions of an ethnic group to outside
forces must be understood in light of the internal social
organization of the ethnic group, which can be traced to core
cultural orientations that predate immigration. Though frequently
excluded from mainstream economic opportunities, Japanese Americans
were able to form quasi-kin relationships of trust, upon which
enduring group economic relations could be based. The resultant
ethnic economy and petit bourgeois family experience fostered the
values of hard work, deferred gratification, and other perspectives
conductive to success in mainstream society. This book will be of
interest to sociologist and psychologist studying ethnicity,
community organization, and intergenerational change; and to anyone
interested in the Japanese American experience from an economic or
political perspective, Asian American studies, or social history of
the United States.
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