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Japanese American Ethnicity - In Search of Heritage and Homeland Across Generations (Hardcover)
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Japanese American Ethnicity - In Search of Heritage and Homeland Across Generations (Hardcover)
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Traces the contemporary ethnic experiences of Japanese Americans As
one of the oldest groups of Asian Americans in the United States,
most Japanese Americans are culturally assimilated and
well-integrated in mainstream American society. However, they
continue to be racialized as culturally "Japanese" foreigners
simply because of their Asian appearance in a multicultural America
where racial minorities are expected to remain ethnically distinct.
Different generations of Japanese Americans have responded to such
pressures in ways that range from demands that their racial
citizenship as bona fide Americans be recognized to a desire to
maintain or recover their ethnic heritage and reconnect with their
ancestral homeland. In Japanese American Ethnicity, Takeyuki Tsuda
explores the contemporary ethnic experiences of Japanese Americans
from the second to the fourth generations and the extent to which
they remain connected to their ancestral cultural heritage. He also
places Japanese Americans in transnational and diasporic context
and analyzes the performance of ethnic heritage through the example
of taiko drumming ensembles. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with
Japanese Americans in San Diego and Phoenix, Tsuda argues that the
ethnicity of immigrant-descent minorities does not simply follow a
linear trajectory. Increasing cultural assimilation does not always
erode the significance of ethnic heritage and identity over the
generations. Instead, each new generation of Japanese Americans has
negotiated its own ethnic positionality in different ways. Young
Japanese Americans today are reviving their cultural heritage and
embracing its salience in their daily lives more than the previous
generations. This book demonstrates how culturally assimilated
minorities can simultaneously maintain their ancestral cultures or
even actively recover their lost ethnic heritage.
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