Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific Jin Michael R.
Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific Jin Michael R. From the 1920s to the eve of the Pacific War in 1941, more than 50,000 young second-generation…
Specifikacia Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific Jin Michael R.
Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific Jin Michael R.
From the 1920s to the eve of the Pacific War in 1941, more than 50,000 young second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) embarked on transpacific journeys to the Japanese Empire, putting an ocean between themselves and pervasive anti-Asian racism in the American West. Born U.S. and Japan.Based on transnational and bilingual research in the United States and Japan, Michael R. citizens but treated as unwelcome aliens, this contingent of Japanese Americans--one in four U.S.-born Nisei--came in search of better lives but instead encountered a world shaped by increasingly volatile relations between the U.S.
and Japanese empire. Jin recuperates the stories of this unique group of American emigrants at the crossroads of U.S. From the Jim Crow American West to the Japanese colonial frontiers in Asia, and from internment camps in America to Hiroshima on the eve of the atomic