Author: Monica Itoi Sone
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: daughter, nisei
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 1979-10
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0295956887
ISBN-13: 9780295956886
Author: Jere Takahashi
Publisher: Temple University Pre
Keywords: history, cultu, american, asian, sansei, nisei
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 1998-06-22
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 156639659X
ISBN-13: 9781566396592
To talk about ’political style’ is to acknowledge a dynamic and somewhat improvisational approach to politics; it is to acknowledge the need to work within the limits presented by tradition, resources, and social context. To speak of ’political style’ in relation to a particular ethnic group is to recognize their agency in shaping their history. In "Nisei/Sansei: Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics", Jere Takahashi challenges studies that describe the Japanese American community’s essentially linear process toward assimilation into U.S. society. As
Author: Eileen H. Tamura
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: hawaii, asian, american, experience, generation, nisei, acculturation, ethnic, identity, americanization
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1993-12-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0252063589
ISBN-13: 9780252063589
Authors:Kenneth Kaname Takemoto, Paul Howard Takemoto, Ali
Publisher: University of Washington Pre
Keywords: series, oki, asian, american, studies, laurie, scott, memories, parents, war, years, nisei
Number of Pages: 237
Published: 2006-03-29
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0295985852
ISBN-13: 9780295985855
Nisei Memories is an extraordinarily moving account of two second-generation Japanese Americans who were demonized as threats to national security during World War II. Based on Paul Takemotos interviews with his parents, in which they finally divulge their past, Nisei Memories follows their lives before, during, and after the war -- his father serving his country, his mother imprisoned by it. At the start of the war, twenty-one-year-old Kaname (Ken) Takemoto was a sophomore at the University of Hawaii. Although classified as an "enemy alien," he served in the army, first as a Varsity Victory
Author: Diana Meyers Bahr
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: history, oral, embrey, palgrave, studies, kunitomi, life, nisei, unquiet, sue
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-08-15
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0230621651
ISBN-13: 9780230621657
An oral-history-based biography of a seminal Asian-American activist. The book traces Embrey’s life from her youth in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, to her harrowing experiences in the Japanese internment camps, to her many decades of passionate advocacy on behalf of her fellow internees.
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