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Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and
more than thirty years since the publication of the original book,
"Racial Formation in the United States" now arrives with each
chapter radically revised and rewritten by authors Michael Omi and
Howard Winant, but the overall purpose and vision of this classic
remains the same: Omi and Winant provide an account of how concepts
of race are created and transformed, how they become the focus of
political conflict, and how they come to shape and permeate both
identities and institutions. The steady journey of the U.S. toward
a majority nonwhite population, the ongoing evisceration of the
political legacy of the early post-World War II civil rights
movement, the initiation of the war on terror with its attendant
Islamophobia, the rise of a mass immigrants rights movement, the
formulation of race/class/gender intersectionality theories, and
the election and reelection of a black President of the United
States are some of the many new racial conditions "Racial
Formation" now covers."
Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and
more than thirty years since the publication of the original book,
"Racial Formation in the United States" now arrives with each
chapter radically revised and rewritten by authors Michael Omi and
Howard Winant, but the overall purpose and vision of this classic
remains the same: Omi and Winant provide an account of how concepts
of race are created and transformed, how they become the focus of
political conflict, and how they come to shape and permeate both
identities and institutions. The steady journey of the U.S. toward
a majority nonwhite population, the ongoing evisceration of the
political legacy of the early post-World War II civil rights
movement, the initiation of the war on terror with its attendant
Islamophobia, the rise of a mass immigrants rights movement, the
formulation of race/class/gender intersectionality theories, and
the election and reelection of a black President of the United
States are some of the many new racial conditions "Racial
Formation" now covers."
Whereas most scholarship on Japanese Americans looks at historical
case studies or the 1.5 generation assimilating, this pioneering
anthology, Japanese American Millennials, captures theexperiences,
perspectives, and aspirations of Asian Americans born between 1980
and 2000. The editors and contributors present multiple
perspectives on who Japanese Americans are, how they think about
notions of community and culture, and how they engage and negotiate
multiple social identities. The essays by scholars both in the
United States and Japan draw upon the Japanese American millennial
experience to examine how they find self-expression in Youth
Basketball Leagues or Christian youth camps as well as how they
grapple with being mixed-race, bicultural, or queer. Featuring
compelling interviews and observations, Japanese American
Millennials dislodges the dominant generational framework toaddress
absences in the current literature and suggests how we might
alternatively study Japanese Americans as a whole.
Like many other immigrants who have come to melting-pot America,
Japanese Americans have experienced radical shifts in fortune. From
the farms and small businesses founded by the first arrivals in the
early years of this century, to the trauma of the relocation camps
during World War II, to the search for new values in a
heterogeneous society, each generation of Japanese Americans has
had to confront its own challenges. Exploring the relationships
among the Issei (first generation), Nisei (second generation), and
Sansei (third generation), playwright Philip Kan Gotanda has
crafted four powerful dramas. Japanese American family life is at
the heart of the plays, from elder traditionalists and Nisei still
troubled by the message of the wartime camps, to women seeking new
roles and brash youth seizing opportunities in a larger society.
The four plays included are "Song for a Nisei Fisherman", "Fish
Head Soup", "The Wash", and "Yankee Dawg You Die." Throughout these
dramas, many facets of Japanese American life are revealed as
compelling characters interact. Gotanda understands and sensitively
depicts the stresses this traditional culture endures, not only in
its relation to the heterogeneous society that surrounds it but
also among the generations that comprise it. An introduction by
Michael Omi, assistant professor of Asian American Studies at the
University of California, Berkeley, considers the sources of the
plays in Gotanda's personal history.
Whereas most scholarship on Japanese Americans looks at historical
case studies or the 1.5 generation assimilating, this pioneering
anthology, Japanese American Millennials, captures theexperiences,
perspectives, and aspirations of Asian Americans born between 1980
and 2000. The editors and contributors present multiple
perspectives on who Japanese Americans are, how they think about
notions of community and culture, and how they engage and negotiate
multiple social identities. The essays by scholars both in the
United States and Japan draw upon the Japanese American millennial
experience to examine how they find self-expression in Youth
Basketball Leagues or Christian youth camps as well as how they
grapple with being mixed-race, bicultural, or queer. Featuring
compelling interviews and observations, Japanese American
Millennials dislodges the dominant generational framework toaddress
absences in the current literature and suggests how we might
alternatively study Japanese Americans as a whole.
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies is a unique collection of
essays derived from a series of dialogues held in Tokyo, Kyoto, and
Los Angeles on the issues of racializations, gender, communities,
and the positionalities of scholars involved in Japanese American
studies. The book brings together some of the most renowned
scholars of the discipline in Japan and North America. It seeks to
overcome past constraints of dialogues between Japan- and
U.S.-based scholars by providing opportunities for candid, extended
conversations among its contributors. While each contribution
focuses on the field of "Japanese American" studies, approaches to
the subject vary - ranging from national and village archives,
community newspapers, personal letters, visual art, and personal
interviews. Research papers are divided into six sections:
Racializations, Communities, Intersections, Borderlands,
Reorientations, and Teaching. Papers by one or two Japan-based
scholar(s) are paired with a U.S.-based scholar, reflecting the
book's intention to promote dialogue and mutuality across national
formations. The collection is also notable for featuring
underrepresented communities in Japanese American studies, such as
Okinawan "war brides," Koreans, women, and multiracials. Essays on
subject positions raise fundamental questions: Is it possible to
engage in a truly equal dialogue when English is the language used
in the conversation and in a field where English-language texts
predominate? How can scholars foster a mutual respect when
U.S.-centrism prevails in the subject matter and in the field's
scholarly hierarchy? Understanding foundational questions that are
now frequently unstated assumptions will help to disrupt
hierarchies in scholarship and work toward more equal engagements
across national divides. Although the study of Japanese Americans
has reached a stage of maturity, contributors to this volume
recognize important historical and contemporary neglects in that
historiography and literature. Japanese America and its scholarly
representations, they declare, are much too deep, rich, and varied
to contain in a singular narrative or subject position.
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