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Pacific Childhoods in the Rafu: Multiple Transnational Modernisms and the Los Angeles Nisei, 1918-1942

Arnold, Bruce MakotoHistory2017

… that of their first-generation parents (Issei) and that of the dominant culture surrounding them. However, the generation gap between the Issei and Nisei was extreme, with the former being raised right in the midst of the Second Industrial Revolution in Japan while the latter was raised …

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A cascade of failures: the U.S. Army and the Japanese-American internment decision in World War II

Thomsen, Paul A.Kansas State University2013

The Second World War internment of the West Coast Issei and Nisei remains a tragic moment in American history. It has long been viewed by historians as a singular act of mass social and political pressure to remove a racially constructed social group from the area, but it was carried out by the …

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Detailed estimation of S-wave reflection structures in the crust and uppermost mantle in the Chugoku region, southwest Japan, using waveforms of local earthquakes

Doi, Issei京都大学 (Kyoto University)2008

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The rhetoric of identity in Japanese American writings, 1948-1988

Kawaharada, Dennis1988

… Mori and Hisaye Yamamoto, who characterized the Issei and Nisei not as model middle-class citizens, but as struggling outcasts and victims who deserved sympathy rather than animosity from the American public. Chapter 5 ("The Passive Stance in Nisei Writing") discusses the generally deferential …

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Life at Heart Mountain : A Dynamic Network Model of a Japanese American Community during World War II

Kekki, SaaraHelsingin yliopisto2019

… show division between generations (Japanese-born Issei to a large extent separated from the American-born Nisei) and genders, and that education was often the key to reaching influential positions in the community. Education was also the driving force for resettlers: those who left the camp in the …

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Becoming Japanese and Mexican: A Trans-Pacific Social History of Race, Mestizaje, and Resistance across Five Generations.

Fernandez De Lara Harada, JessicaUniversity of Cambridge2021

… some main patterns. In this vein, I contend that Issei (first generation Japanese immigrants) were positioned by the Mexican state as non-citizen disposable labour; Nisei (second generation descendants of Japanese immigrants) as national enemies; Sansei (third generation) as ambivalent others for …

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An Ambitious Social Experiment: Education in Japanese-American Internment Camps, 1942-1945 by Christopher Su.

Su, Christopher (Christopher Thomas)Massachusetts Institute of Technology2011

… and Japanese Americans. The former are issei, a term meaning "first-generation" in Japanese, and the latter are nisei, "second-generation." Throughout the internment process, more than 110,000 individuals of Japanese-ancestry were excluded from the zones of exclusion, often forced to …

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