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The Japanese Empire and Latin America provides a comprehensive
analysis of the complicated relationship between Japanese migration
and capital exportation to Latin America and the rise and fall of
the empire in the Asia-Pacific region. It explains how Japan’s
presence influenced the cultures and societies of Latin American
countries and also explores the role of Latin America in the
evolution of Japanese expansion. Together, this collection of
essays presents a new narrative of the Japanese experience in Latin
America by excavating transpacific perspectives that shed new light
on the global significance of Japan’s colonialism and
expansionism. The chapters cover a variety of topics, such as
economic expansion, migration management, cross-border community
making, the surge of pro-Japan propaganda in the Americas, the
circulation of knowledge, and the representation of the "other" in
Japanese and Latin American fictions. By focusing on both
government action and individual experiences, the viewpoints
examined create a complete analysis, including the roles the empire
played in the process of settler identity formation in Latin
America. While the colonialist and expansionist discourses in Japan
set a stage for the beginning of Japanese migration to Latin
America, it was the vibrant circulation of information between East
Asia and the Americas that allowed the empire to stay at the center
of the cultural life of communities on the other side of the globe.
The empire left an enduring mark on Latin America that is hard to
ignore. This volume explores long-neglected aspects of the Japanese
global expansion; and thus, moves our understanding of the
empire’s significance beyond Asia and rethinks its legacy in
global history.
This is a collection of the last essays by Yuji Ichioka, the
foremost authority on Japanese-American history, who passed away
two years ago. The essays focus on Japanese Americans during the
interwar years and explore issues such as the nisei (American-born
generation) relationship toward Japan, Japanese-American attitudes
toward Japan's prewar expansionism in Asia, and the meaning of
"loyalty" in a racist society--all controversial but central issues
in Japanese-American history.
Ichioka draws from original sources in Japanese and English to
offer an unrivaled picture of Japanese Americans in these years.
Also included in this volume are an introductory essay by editor
Eiichiro Azuma that places Ichioka's work in Japanese-American
historiography, and a postscript by editor Chang reflecting on
Ichioka's life-work.
After emerging from the tumult of social movements of the 1960s and
1970s, the field of Asian American studies has enjoyed rapid and
extraordinary growth. Nonetheless, many aspects of Asian American
history still remain open to debate. The Oxford Handbook of Asian
American History offers the first comprehensive commentary on the
state of the field, simultaneously assessing where Asian American
studies came from and what the future holds. In this volume, thirty
leading scholars offer original essays on a wide range of topics.
The chapters trace Asian American history from the beginning of the
migration flows toward the Pacific Islands and the American
continent to Japanese American incarceration and Asian American
participation in World War II, from the experience of exclusion,
violence, and racism to the social and political activism of the
late twentieth century. The authors explore many of the key aspects
of the Asian American experience, including politics, economy,
intellectual life, the arts, education, religion, labor, gender,
family, urban development, and legal history. The Oxford Handbook
of Asian American History demonstrates how the roots of Asian
American history are linked to visions of a nation marked by
justice and equity and to a deep effort to participate in a global
project aimed at liberation. The contributors to this volume attest
to the ongoing importance of these ideals, showing how the mass
politics, creative expressions, and the imagination that emerged
during the 1960s are still relevant today. It is an unprecedentedly
detailed portrait of Asian Americans and how they have helped
change the face of the United States.
The number of Asian American students in schools and colleges has
soared in the last twenty-five years, and they make up one of the
fastest growing segments of the student population. However,
classroom material often does not include their version of the
American experience. Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans was
created to address this void. This resource guide provides
interactive activities, assignments, and strategies for classrooms
or workshops. Those new to the field of Asian American studies will
appreciate the background information on issues that concern Asian
Pacific Americans, while experts in the field will find powerful,
innovative teaching activities that clearly convey established and
new ideas. The activities in this book have been used effectively
in classrooms, workshops for staff and practitioners in student
services programs, community-based organizations, teacher training
programs, social service agencies, and diversity training. Teaching
About Asian Pacific Americans serves as a critical resource for
anyone interested in race, ethnicity, and Asian Pacific American
communities.
The number of Asian American students in schools and colleges has
soared in the last twenty-five years, and they make up one of the
fastest growing segments of the student population. However,
classroom material often does not include their version of the
American experience. Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans was
created to address this void. This resource guide provides
interactive activities, assignments, and strategies for classrooms
or workshops. Those new to the field of Asian American studies will
appreciate the background information on issues that concern Asian
Pacific Americans, while experts in the field will find powerful,
innovative teaching activities that clearly convey established and
new ideas. The activities in this book have been used effectively
in classrooms, workshops for staff and practitioners in student
services programs, community-based organizations, teacher training
programs, social service agencies, and diversity training. Teaching
About Asian Pacific Americans serves as a critical resource for
anyone interested in race, ethnicity, and Asian Pacific American
communities.
Scholars, journalists, and policymakers have long argued that the
1965 Immigration and Nationality Act dramatically reshaped the
demographic composition of the United States. In A Nation of
Immigrants Reconsidered, leading scholars of immigration explore
how the political and ideological struggles of the "age of
restriction"--from 1924 to 1965--paved the way for the changes to
come. The essays examine how geopolitics, civil rights, perceptions
of America's role as a humanitarian sanctuary, and economic
priorities led government officials to facilitate the entrance of
specific immigrant groups, thereby establishing the legal
precedents for future policies. Eye-opening articles discuss
Japanese war brides and changing views of miscegenation, the
recruitment of former Nazi scientists, a temporary workers program
with Japanese immigrants, the emotional separation of Mexican
immigrant families, Puerto Rican youth's efforts to claim an
American identity, and the restaurant raids of conscripted Chinese
sailors during World War II. Contributors: Eiichiro Azuma, David
Cook-Martin, David FitzGerald, Monique Laney, Heather Lee, Kathleen
Lopez, Laura Madokoro, Ronald L. Mize, Arissa H. Oh, Ana Elizabeth
Rosas, Lorrin Thomas, Ruth Ellen Wasem, and Elliott Young
In Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational
history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked
Japanese America with Japan's colonial empire through the exchange
of migrant bodies, expansionist ideas, colonial expertise, and
capital in the Asia-Pacific basin before World War II. The
trajectories of Japanese transpacific migrants exemplified a
prevalent national structure of thought and practice that not only
functioned to shore up the backbone of Japan's empire building but
also promoted the borderless quest for Japanese overseas
development. Eiichiro Azuma offers new interpretive perspectives
that will allow readers to understand Japanese settler
colonialism's capacity to operate outside the aegis of the home
empire.
The Japanese Empire and Latin America provides a comprehensive
analysis of the complicated relationship between Japanese migration
and capital exportation to Latin America and the rise and fall of
the empire in the Asia-Pacific region. It explains how Japan’s
presence influenced the cultures and societies of Latin American
countries and also explores the role of Latin America in the
evolution of Japanese expansion. Together, this collection of
essays presents a new narrative of the Japanese experience in Latin
America by excavating trans-Pacific perspectives that shed new
light on the global significance of Japan’s colonialism and
expansionism. The chapters cover a variety of topics, such as
economic expansion, migration management, cross-border community
making, the surge of pro-Japan propaganda in the Americas, the
circulation of knowledge, and the representation of the "other" in
Japanese and Latin American fictions. By focusing on both
government action and individual experiences, the viewpoints
examined create a complete analysis, including the roles the empire
played in the process of settler identity formation in Latin
America. While the colonialist and expansionist discourses in Japan
set a stage for the beginning of Japanese migration to Latin
America, it was the vibrant circulation of information between East
Asia and the Americas that allowed the empire to stay at the center
of the cultural life of communities on the other side of the globe.
The empire left an enduring mark on Latin America that is hard to
ignore. This volume explores long-neglected aspects of the Japanese
global expansion; and thus, moves our understanding of the
empire’s significance beyond Asia and rethinks its legacy in
global history.
The incarceration of Japanese Americans has been discredited as a
major blemish in American democratic tradition. Accompanying this
view is the assumption that the ethnic group help unqualified
allegiance to the United States. Between Two Empires probes the
complexities of prewar Japanese America to show how Japanese in
America held an in-between space between the United States and the
empire of Japan, between American nationality and Japanese racial
identity.
The academic field of Asian American history traces its roots to
social movements of the late 1960s, when individuals and
communities attempted to expand and challenge the existing frame of
United States history to take into account their experiences. There
were of course people who had documented and written about Asian
Americans in earlier eras, but a recognizable field did not develop
until the Asian American movement. The publication of Ronald
Takaki's Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian
Americans (1989) and Sucheng Chan's Asian Americans: An
Interpretive History (1991) signaled a coming of age for the field
in which these narratives of the Asian American past synthesized
the literature that had been produced to date. These two landmark
works reflected the rise of social history, which stressed the
agency of individuals and communities. Historians of many immigrant
groups challenged the framework of assimilation and highlighted
ethnic retentions. The result was a more nuanced understanding of
how immigration had shaped the contours of United States history.
The attention paid to the sending countries placed immigration
history within a transnational context and underscored global
processes linked to labor, capital, and empire. As part of these
historical developments, scholars working in Asian American history
helped unearth buried pasts. The Asian American movement and
post-1965 migrations of Asians to the United States sparked
classes, programs, and other developments on college campuses that
led to students entering graduate school to specialize in Asian
American history. While the Japanese American incarceration during
World War II and racial exclusion remain the most documented and
analyzed dimensions of Asian American history, the body of
scholarship produced over the past two decades or so has deepened
and broadened the scope of knowledge. Numerous monographs and
anthologies have included a greater number of ethnic groups and
issues. The influence of cultural studies, transnationalism,
regional diversity, and interdisciplinary and comparative
frameworks (to name only a few) has added to the richness of the
theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of Asian
American history. Nevertheless, there remains much work to be done
in the field, given the tremendous internal diversity within this
umbrella category. The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History
represents an ideal opportunity to engage in state of the field
essays that are historiographically informed, but that provide a
platform for historians to think creatively about their areas of
research expertise. What kinds of questions and issues remain, how
do recent developments in related fields affect the historical
treatment of Asian America, and what theoretical and methodological
concerns have emerged? These questions are merely suggestive of
many more that will be asked through the collection's essays. Given
the development of the field, the time is ripe for a volume that
simultaneously assesses where the scholarship has been and what the
future holds.
The incarceration of Japanese Americans has been discredited as a
major blemish in American democratic tradition. Accompanying this
view is the assumption that the ethnic group held unqualified
allegiance to the United States. Between Two Empires probes the
complexities of prewar Japanese America to show how Japanese in
America held an in-between space between the United States and the
empire of Japan, between American nationality and Japanese racial
identity.
In recent times, the Asia-Pacific region has far surpassed Europe
in terms of reciprocal trade with the United States, and since the
1980s immigrants from Asia entering the United States have exceeded
their counterparts from Europe, reversing a longstanding historical
trend and making Asian Americans the country’s fastest growing
racial group. What does transpacific history look like if the arc
of the story is extended to the present? The essays in this volume
offer answers to this question challenging current assumptions
about transpacific relations. Many of these assumptions are
expressed through fear: that the ascendance of China threatens a
U.S.-led world system and undermines domestic economies; that
immigrants subvert national unity; and that globalization, for all
its transcending of international, cultural, and racial
differences, generates its own forms of prejudice and social
divisions that reproduce global and national inequalities. The
contributors make clear that these fears associated with, and
induced by, pacific integration are not new. Rather, they are the
most recent manifestation of international, racial, and cultural
conflicts that have driven transpacific relations in its premodern
and especially modern iterations. Pacific America differs from
other books that are beginning to flesh out the transnational
history of the Pacific Ocean in that it is more self-consciously a
people’s history. While diplomatic and economic relations are
addressed, the chapters are particularly concerned with histories
from the “bottom up,” including attention to social relations
and processes, individual and group agency, racial and cultural
perception, and collective memory. These perspectives are embodied
in the four sections focusing on China and the early modern world,
circuits of migration and trade, racism and imperialism, and the
significance of Pacific islands. The last section on Pacific
Islanders avoids a common failing in popular perception that
focuses on both sides of the Pacific Ocean while overlooking the
many islands in between. The chapters in this section take on one
of the key challenges for transpacific history in connecting the
migration and imperial histories of the United States, Japan,
China, Korea, Vietnam, and other nations, with the history of
Oceania.
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