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Book SynopsisScholars discuss the theme of resistance within 20th-century Japanese American communities.
Trade Review"The collection's solid scholarship and research moves the study of Japanese Americans 'outside the usual California-centered framework.' [It] could easily be used in classes dealing with the Northwest or Asian Americans. Each essay stands alone as a tribute to the vitality of Nikkei, such as Gordon Hirabayashi, and their descendants."
* Western Historical Quarterly *
"A valuable resource on Nikkei history."
* Multicultural Review *
"These essays are well researched, thoroughly documented, and provide readers new knowledge and insights on issues many know only superficially. The[y] are well written and make interesting reading for the public. They are also a good resource for students searching for information."
* Oregon Historical Quarterly *
"[Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest] is a valuable addition to Japanese American history and should provoke specialists and nonspecialists alike to pay greater attention to region in discussions of ethnicity and immigration in the American West. Its essays also suggest exciting possibilities for further research— especially in such underexplored areas as Japanese-Native relations in Yakima and cross-border relations with Canada."
* Pacific Northwest Quarterly *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. Introduction: Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest / Louis Fiset and Gail M. Nomura
2. Writing Racial Barriers into Law: Upholding B.C.'s Denial of the Vote to Its Japanese Canadian Citizens, Homma v. Cunningham, 1902 / Andrea Geiger-Adams
3. Becoming "Local" Japanese: Issei Adaptive Strategies on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1906-1923 / Gail M. Nomura
4. Yasutaro Yamaga: Fraser Valley Berry Farmer, Community Leader, and Strategist / Michiko Midge Ayukawa
5. Americanization vs. Japanese Cultural Maintenance: Analyzing Seattle's Nihongo Tokuhon, 1920 / Noriko Asato
6. "The Nail That Sticks Up Gets Hit": The Architecture of Japanese American Identity in the Urban Environment, 1885-1942 / Gail Lee Dubrow
7. Four Hirabayashi Cousins: A Question of Identity / James A. Hirabayashi
8. The Minidoka Draft Resisters in a Federal Kangaroo Court / Eric L. Muller
9. Words Do Matter: A Note on Inappropriate Terminology and the Incarceration of the Japanese Americans / Roger Daniels
10. In the Matter of Iwao Matsushita: A Government Decision to Intern a Seattle Japanese Enemy Alien in World War II / Louis Fiset
11. The "Free Zone" Nikkei: Japanese Americans in Idaho and Eastern Oregon in World War II / Robert C. Sims
12. Lessons in Citizenship, 1945-1949: The Delayed Return of the Japanese to Canada's Pacific Coast / Patricia E. Roy
13. Peculiar Odyssey: Newsman Jimmie Omura's Removal from and Regeneration within Nikkei Society, History, and Memory / Arthur A. Hansen
14. Reclaiming and Reinventing "Powell Street": Reconstruction of the Japanese Canadian Community in Post-World War II Vancouver / Masumi Izumi
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