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From Curiosity to Controversy: American Perception of Japanese Immigrants, 1853-1924

Curbelo, Chloe Elizabeth

… rapid modernization and the growing number of Japanese immigrants on the West Coast transformed curiosity into anxiety. My paper traces this evolution of perception from 1850 to 1924, arguing that shifting views of Japan and its people reflected America’s ethnocentric notions of civilization …

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Questions of Citizenship: <i>Oregonian</i> Reactions to Japanese Immigrants' Quest for Naturalization Rights in the United States, 1894-1952

Jessie, Alison Leigh

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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

… historical experiences of Mexican descendants of Japanese immigrants over five generations in Mexico. Despite having a genealogy that reaches to the 16th century, these ethno-racial groups are erased from dominant academic, government and popular discourses of national, racial and cultural …

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Socio-cultural conditions of Japan reflected by factors inducing recent Japanese immigration to Canada

Nagoshi, MarikoUniversity of British Columbia2007

… examines the socio-cultural conditions of Japanese society as reflected in factors that induce recent Japanese immigration to Canada. The examination is based on interview research done with six female and six male Japanese immigrants living in Vancouver, who arrived in Canada after the …

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From a “Contagious” to a “Poisonous Yellow Peril”?: Japanese and Japanese Americans in Public Health and Agriculture, 1890s – 1950.

Shinozuka, Jeannie Natsuko2009

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

Su, Christopher (Christopher Thomas)Massachusetts Institute of Technology2011

… government had detained her because of her Japanese ancestry. Between 1942 and 1945, the United States government removed more than 110,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry residing on the west coast to remote relocation centers located in the barren mountainous states of the American west. …

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