Description
Book SynopsisHow the interests of Seattle and Japanese immigrants were linked in the processes of urban boosterism before World War II
Trade Review"Claiming the Oriental Gateway is an important contribution to the understanding of diversity of Japanese American experiences and a valuable contribution to the field of Asian American Studies, U.S. urban history, and U.S. western history."
—Karen Leong, author of The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong Chiang, and the Transformation of American Orientalism.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Multiethnic Seattle
2. Making Seattle “Cosmopolitan”
3. Making Local Images for International Eyes: Race, Nationality, and the Seattle Camera Club, 1924-1929
4. “Problems of the Pacific” in “the Great Crucible of America”: Public Schools in the 1920s and the 1930s
5. “That Splendid Medium of Free Play”: Japanese American Sports during the Interwar Years
6. The Eve of War
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
