Authors: Eiichiro Azuma
ISBN-13: 9780195159417, ISBN-10: 0195159411
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
Eiichiro Azuma is an Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
The incarceration of Japanese Americans has been discredited as a major blemish in American democratic tradition. Accompanying this view is the assumption that the ethnic group held unqualified allegiance to the United States. Between Two Empires probes the complexities of prewar Japanese America to show how Japanese in America held an in-between space between the United States and the empire of Japan, between American nationality and Japanese racial identity.
Introduction : immigrant transnationalism between two empires | 3 | |
1 | Mercantilists, colonialists, and laborers : heterogeneous origins of Japanese America | 17 |
2 | Re-forming the immigrant masses : the transnational construction of a moral citizenry | 35 |
3 | Zaibei Doho : racial exclusion and the making of an American minority | 61 |
4 | "Pioneers of Japanese development" : history making and racial identity | 89 |
5 | The problem of generation : preparing the Nisei for the future | 111 |
6 | Wages of immigrant internationalism : Nisei in the ancestral land | 135 |
7 | Helping Japan, helping ourselves : the meaning of Issei patriotism | 163 |
8 | Ethnic nationalism and racial struggle : interethnic relations in the California Delta | 187 |
Epilogue : wartime racisms, state nationalisms, and the collapse of immigrant transnationalism | 208 |