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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Nisei"”.
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Pacific Childhoods in the Rafu: Multiple Transnational Modernisms and the Los Angeles Nisei, 1918-1942
The second generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) who grew up in the Los Angeles area before the Second World War had two primary cultures seemingly competing for their attention: that of their first-generation parents (Issei) and that of the dominant culture surrounding them. However, the …
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The rhetoric of identity in Japanese American writings, 1948-1988
… To counteract these charges, many of the Nisei (second-generation) writers portrayed Japanese Americans as patriotic (Chapter 1-"Nisei Patriotism"), assimilated (Chapter 2-"In the Melting Pot"), and ideally middle-class (Chapter 3-"The Hawaii Success Story"). Chapter 4 ("Down and Out in …
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A cascade of failures: the U.S. Army and the Japanese-American internment decision in World War II
… 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 United States …
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Korean Soil, Japanese Faces, American Empire: Repatriation and the Korean War Experiences of Japanese Laborers and Japanese American Soldiers
… 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 post-1945 Asia Pacific. In particular, this research addresses the question, “how did the politics of …
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“Bury Your Head Between My Knees and Seek Pardon”: Gender, Sexuality, and National Conflict in John Okada’s No-No Boy
… national identifications for American nisei. I demonstrate that this apparent story of one man’s pursuit to resolve his conflict over national identity is, in reality, a tour de force of literary subversion that not only destabilizes the subterfuge that surrounded internment but also—in …
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Service and Citizenship: Examining the Historical Relationship between Immigration and Military Service in the United States
… two groups in particular, The Ritchie Boys and Nisei in the Military Intelligence Service. The first are a group of European Jews who joined the military in World War II to become linguists for the Military Intelligence Service in the European Theater. The second group is a group of Japanese …
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Crafting Citizens Beyond Borders: Japanese Education on the Frontier of Japan’s Empire in the Americas
… was encouraged by the transnational education of nisei (second generation migrants) in the United States. My research expands on Japanese transnational imperial history to showcase a global network of education, through which Japan fostered simultaneous civic and moral connection to Japan in …
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Life at Heart Mountain : A Dynamic Network Model of a Japanese American Community during World War II
… 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 early stages were either already well-educated or left …
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Becoming Japanese and Mexican: A Trans-Pacific Social History of Race, Mestizaje, and Resistance across Five Generations.
… Mexican state as non-citizen disposable labour; Nisei (second generation descendants of Japanese immigrants) as national enemies; Sansei (third generation) as ambivalent others for whom association to Japan was less socially desirable; and Yonsei and Gosei (fourth and fifth generations) as …
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An Ambitious Social Experiment: Education in Japanese-American Internment Camps, 1942-1945 by Christopher Su.
… 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 sell their belongings, and relocated to barren camps established in the …