ISBN:
9781479816361
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9781479816378
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 235 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Asian American sociology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Nakano, Dana Y. Japanese Americans and the racial uniform
DDC:
305.8956/073
Keywords:
Japanese Americans Cultural assimilation
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Japanese Americans Ethnic identity
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Japanese Americans Social life and customs
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Ethnic Studies
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Ethnic studies
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SOC008020
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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Social & cultural history
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Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
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Soziologie
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Japanese Village and Deer Park (Buena Park, Calif.)
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Buena Park (Calif.) Social life and customs 20th century
Abstract:
How race continues to shape the citizenship and everyday lives of later-generation JapaneseAmericansJapanese Americans are seen as the model minority, a group that has fully assimilated and excelled within the US. Yet third- and fourth-generation Japanese Americans continue to report feeling marginalized within the predominantly white communities they call home. Japanese Americans and the Racial Uniform explores this apparent contradiction, challenging the way society understands the role of race in social and cultural integration.To explore race and the everyday practices of citizenship, Dana Y. Nakano begins at an unlikely site, Japanese Village and Deer Park, a now defunct Japan-themed amusement park in suburban Southern California. Drawing from extensive interviews with the park s Japanese American employees as well as photographic imagery, Nakano shows how the employees' race acted as part of their work uniform and magnified their sense of alienation from their white peers and the park s white visitors. While the racial perception of Japanese Americans as forever foreigners made them ideal employees for Deer Park, the same stigma continues to marginalizes Japanese Americans beyond the place and time of the amusement park. Into the present day, third and fourth generation Japanese Americans share feelings of racialized non-belonging and yearning for community. Japanese Americans and the Racial Uniform pushes us to rethink the persistent recognition of racial markers-the racial body as a visible, ever-present uniform-and how it continues to impact claims on an American identity and the lived experience of citizenship
Description / Table of Contents:
I Was Born to Write This Book -- Race, Belonging, and the Affective Dimensions of Citizenship -- Contextualizing Japanese America -- The False Promise of Assimilation -- How to Be Cool at Deer Park -- The Racial Replenishment of Ethnicity -- Have Ethnicity, Will Travel -- Ethnic History as American History -- Citizenship, Belonging, and the Racial Critique of Assimilation.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Zielgruppe: 5PB-US-D, Bezug zu asiatischen Amerikanern
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