Description
Book SynopsisTraces the struggles and achievements of Japanese Americans in claiming their place in American society. This title outlines three forces shaping ethnic groups in general: shared interests, shared institutions, and shared culture, and chronicles the Japanese American experience within this framework.
Trade Review" The book is well researched and clearly written, and it provides the reader with perhaps the best single volume on the overall historical experience of Japanese Americans." -- Robert C. Sims * Journal of American History *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface to the Revised Edition
Acknowledgements to the First Edition
1 Japanese Americans and Ethnicity
2 The Japan They Left
3 Emigrants and Frontiersmen
4 Immigrants and Family Folk
5 Born in America
6 Internment
7 Since World War II
Appendix: Tables
Bibliographic Essay: The State of Japanese American History, 1994
Further Bibliographic Essay: Writing Japanese American History, 1994-2007
Notes
Index
