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Japanese American celebration and conflict : a history of ethnic identity and festival, 1934-1990 / Lon Kurashige.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American crossroads ; 8.Publication details: Berkeley, Cal. : University of California Press, [(c)2002.]Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 274 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520926479
  • 0520926471
  • 1597346896
  • 9781597346894
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • F869.89
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Contents:
Illustrations; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Problem of Racial Rearticulation; One: Succeeding Immigrants: Ethnic Leadership and the Origins of Nisei Week; Two: Rise and Fall of Biculturalism: Consumption, Socialization, and Americanism; Three: War and the American Front: Collaboration, Protest, and Class in the Internment Crisis; Four: Defining Integration: The Return of Nisei Week and Remaking of Japanese American Identity; Five: The New Cosmopolitanism: From Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy.
Summary: Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and cultures? In exploring the Japanese American experience, Lon Kurashige recasts this tangled debate by examining what assimilation and ethnic retention have meant to a particular community over a long period of time.
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Online Book G. Allen Fleece Library Online Non-fiction F869.89 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocm50745525\

Includes bibliographies and index.

Illustrations; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Problem of Racial Rearticulation; One: Succeeding Immigrants: Ethnic Leadership and the Origins of Nisei Week; Two: Rise and Fall of Biculturalism: Consumption, Socialization, and Americanism; Three: War and the American Front: Collaboration, Protest, and Class in the Internment Crisis; Four: Defining Integration: The Return of Nisei Week and Remaking of Japanese American Identity; Five: The New Cosmopolitanism: From Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy.

Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and cultures? In exploring the Japanese American experience, Lon Kurashige recasts this tangled debate by examining what assimilation and ethnic retention have meant to a particular community over a long period of time.

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