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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Japanese Americans"”.
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Reasons for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Usage in Japanese Americans
… issues within ethnic samples such as in Asian Americans. The Asian American population is important to investigate for much of what comprises CAM originates from Asian cultural traditions. The Asian Values Scale (Kim et al., 1999), Illness Behavior Questionnaire (Pilowsky, 1969), and 3 …
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The Evacuation of Japanese-Americans from Washington State During World War II: A Study in Race Discrimination
… rights bill designed to give equal rights to all Americans regardless of race, but there was a time when that same government under pressures of war, denied civil rights to citizens as well as non-citizens strictly because of race. Going back twenty-three years, one can study the racial …
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From a “Contagious” to a “Poisonous Yellow Peril”?: Japanese and Japanese Americans in Public Health and Agriculture, 1890s – 1950.
… facilitated the transpacific exchanges of Japanese insect, plant, and human immigrants. This dissertation, "From a `Contagious' to a `Poisonous Yellow Peril'?: Japanese and Japanese Americans in Public Health and Agriculture, 1890s - 1950," challenges the nation-bound paradigm within the …
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"Yes, No, Maybe": Loyalty and Betrayal Reconsidered: The Tule Lake Pilgrimage
… Tule Lake Committee commemorates and honors the Japanese Americans who found themselves incarcerated at the Tule Lake Segregation Center in northern California after 'failing' the loyalty questionnaire administered to them by the War Relocation Authority during World War II. The Tule Lake …
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Japanese American Cultural Identity: The Role of WWII, Internment, and the 3/11 Disaster in Japan
<p>This research explores the nature of Japanese American cultural identity through an examination of the historical contexts of WWII, internment, and the 3/11 disasters in Japan. Interview data was analyzed using both interpretive and critical paradigms. I then utilized the Communication Theory of …
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The rhetoric of identity in Japanese American writings, 1948-1988
I examine the rhetoric of identity in Japanese American writings (1948-1988), focusing on two questions: How did Japanese American writers characterize Japanese Americans? Why did they characterize them in the ways they did? The introduction ("The Making of a Japanese American Identity") presents …
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Japanese American Internment: A Great Injustice
The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II (WWII) is a period in American history that is generally not given due attention. The purpose of this essay is to research and gain understanding of how such an incident could take place, what internees had to go through, and the impact it …
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Wrestling with Tradition: Japanese Activities at Amache, a World War II Incarceration Facility
… and oral histories to investigate traditional Japanese practices that were performed at Amache, a World War II Japanese American incarceration facility. I argue that these inter-generational practices helped to bridge a cultural gap that existed between several generations of Japanese …
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Korean Soil, Japanese Faces, American Empire: Repatriation and the Korean War Experiences of Japanese Laborers and Japanese American Soldiers
… the Korean War experiences of two ethnically Japanese groups that served the US military on the Korean Peninsula – second-generation Japanese American (Nisei) soldiers in the US Military Intelligence Service (MIS) and Japanese laborers – to demonstrate the salience of citizenship in the …
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Life-Story Book Program: An Art Narrative Approach to Make a Life-Story Book of Japanese American Former Internees
… United States. This study will be conducted on Japanese Americans who were former internees in concentration camps during WWII. Many former internees have not discussed their experiences with others because of cultural rules and lack of social interest. These survivors are growing older and …
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Common Ground: Uniting Archaeology and Secondary Social Studies Curricula
… and cultural resources from the World War II Japanese American internment camp, Amache, I created a new supplementary curriculum that focused on the experience of Japanese and Japanese Americans during that era. This thesis presents that curriculum and an accompanying case study that …
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A symphony of voices: digital and visual narratives of Japanese American incarceration
… official narrative and counter-narratives from Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII, along with creative sections that focus on my experiences as a person of Japanese descent, both growing up in the Deep South and visiting the individual camps during a cross country research trip. The …
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Beyond the evacuation zone: Japanese evacuation and resettlement in Spokane, Washington
… government interned approximately 120,000 Japanese aliens and Japanese Americans in inland relocation camps. Few scholars have investigated the effects of the evacuation, relocation, and resettlement program on non- evacuated communities with pre-World War II Japanese populations. Located …
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Stay Brave My Hercules
… loss, and devastation through the eyes of the Japanese and Japanese-Americans during World War II. In these stories, magical realism plays a heavy role in defining familial relationships and providing a means for which love and loyalty can be expressed.</p> <p>Mostly, I wanted to create …
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"We Are Not What You Think": Cultural Memory, Group Identity and Resistance in Contemporary Ethnic Historical Fiction
… identities and the legacies of policy targeting Japanese Americans andHawaiians, respectively. In so doing, the novels enter cultural memory discourse. The analysisfurther highlights the connections between genre, narrative situation and cultural memory. Thenarrative situation contributes to …
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Whose Community Museum Is It? Collaboration Strategies and Identity Affirmation in the Amache Museum
… in preserving Amache history. It represents Japanese American as well as American history and is owned and maintained by the Amache Preservation Society (APS), which is comprised of local Granada High School students. By approaching the Amache Museum as a community museum and noticing its …
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A cascade of failures: the U.S. Army and the Japanese-American internment decision in World War II
… that led to the Second World War internment of Japanese-Americans and the transformation of a reluctant American Army into an agent of a xenophobic West Coast civilian populace through external pressure, poor planning, and false assumptions. This study focuses on several aspects of …
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Brewing Behind Barbed Wire: An Archaeology of Saké at Amache
<p>After the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, approximately 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry living on the west coast of the United States were forcibly removed from their home communities. These people were designated as "evacuees" by the U.S. Government and were …
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