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Wartime hysteria over foreign ways fueled a movement for Americanization that swept the United States during and after World War I. Eileen H. Tamura examines the forms that hysteria took in Hawai'i, where the Nisei (children of Japanese immigrants) were targets of widespread discrimination. Tamura analyzes Hawaii's organized effort to force the Nisei to adopt American ways, discussing it within the larger phenomenon of Nisei acculturation. While racism was prevalent in paradise, the Nisei and their parents also performed as active agents in their own lives, with the older generation attempting to maintain Japanese cultural ways and the younger wishing to become true Americans. Caucasian Americanizers, often associated with powerful agricultural interests, wanted labor to remain cheap and manageable; they lobbied for racist laws and territorial policies, portending the treatment of ethnic Japanese on the U.S. mainland during World War II. Tamura offers a wealth of original source ma

Americanization Acculturation and Ethnic Identity

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      Publisher: MO - University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/1/1993 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780252063589, 978-0252063589
      ISBN10: 0252063589

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      Book Synopsis
      Wartime hysteria over foreign ways fueled a movement for Americanization that swept the United States during and after World War I. Eileen H. Tamura examines the forms that hysteria took in Hawai'i, where the Nisei (children of Japanese immigrants) were targets of widespread discrimination. Tamura analyzes Hawaii's organized effort to force the Nisei to adopt American ways, discussing it within the larger phenomenon of Nisei acculturation. While racism was prevalent in paradise, the Nisei and their parents also performed as active agents in their own lives, with the older generation attempting to maintain Japanese cultural ways and the younger wishing to become true Americans. Caucasian Americanizers, often associated with powerful agricultural interests, wanted labor to remain cheap and manageable; they lobbied for racist laws and territorial policies, portending the treatment of ethnic Japanese on the U.S. mainland during World War II. Tamura offers a wealth of original source ma

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