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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Becoming Nisei provides more much-needed proof of the importance of Japanese and Japanese Americans in the United States. It places their past solidly in all of our memories—not just theirs—and gives us a window into who they are today."
* Northwest Asian Weekly *
"[A]n incisive look at the experiences of second-generation, or Nisei, Japanese people growing up in pre-WW II Tacoma."
* Choice *
"Based on forty-two interviews with former Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) Tacoma residents combined with rigorous archival research, Becoming Nisei offers a unique translocal and transnational approach to the often-overlooked interwar period in the twentieth-century Japanese American experience."
* Pacific Historical Review *
"[A] powerful community study that employs theories of memory and storytelling, and contributes spatial analysis and histories of childhood and education to the existing literature on Japanese american identity formation. By framing their narrative in the prewar period, the authors add significant dimension to histories of Japanese American incarceration and resettlement, particularly in the understudied region of the Pacific Northwest."
* Pacific Northwest Quarterly *
