Roots Of The Issei

Author : Andrew Leong
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780817922061

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Roots of the Issei by Andrew Leong Pdf

Roots of the Issei presents a complex and nuanced picture of the Japanese American community in the early twentieth century: a people challenged by racial prejudice and anti-Japanese immigration laws trying to gain a foothold in a new land while remaining connected to Japan. Against this backdrop, Andrew Way Leong examines the emergence of generational terms that have long been used to organize Japanese American narratives: issei (first generation), nisei (second generation), and sansei (third generation). In the process, he suggests these widely-used generational concepts are in fact a recent construct. Leong's illuminating research is made possible by the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection, the world's largest open-access, full-image, and searchable online digital collection of Japanese American newspapers. With this technology, Leong is able to analyze materials that until recently were regarded as beyond computer-aided analysis, due to difficulties presented by the complexity of Japanese language. With access to these primary sources, Leong is able to upend several scholarly assumptions and beliefs and present a never-before-seen picture of Japanese American struggles—both with an adversarial host country and among themselves—backed by the authority of primary sources.

Author : Andrew Leong,Kaoru Ueda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : REFERENCE
ISBN : 0817922083

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Roots of the Issei by Andrew Leong,Kaoru Ueda Pdf

In Roots of the Issei, Andrew Way Leong explains how acess to digital newspapers from the period has allowed him to explore and analize primary sources. His journey leads to new insights on the concept of generations in Japanese American life -- and in doing so, deepens our understanding of Japanese American hsitory.

Author : Masakazu Iwata
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UOM:39076001301535

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Planted in Good Soil by Masakazu Iwata Pdf

The Association for Asian American Studies has awarded Masakazu Iwata the 1993 National Book Award for Lifetime Scholarship for this book. Based upon numerous interviews on site as well as English and Japanese documents, the book is a narrative history of the Japanese migrants and, specifically, their experiences as immigrants to the continental United States in the late 19th and the 20th centuries. The focus is upon the Issei, the first generation Japanese in America, who upon arrival entered the fishing, timber, mining, and railroad industries in the American West but shortly left the ranks of labor to become independent farm operators, mainly in the various states west of the Missouri River. It broadly delineates the socio-economic milieu of the times and depicts the arduous, agonizing ascendancy of the Issei up the agricultural ladder in the various regions of settlement, while dealing with their successes and failures as well as general contributions made in their adopted land prior to 1941.

Author : Yuji Ichioka
Publisher : New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003901845

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The Issei by Yuji Ichioka Pdf

A powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who escapes to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress, she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution. Sylvie de Rosiers, as the daughter of a rich planter and an enslaved woman, enjoys the comforts of a lady in 1791 Saint-Domingue society. But while she was born to privilege, she was never fully accepted by island elites. After a violent rebellion begins the Haitian Revolution, Sylvie and her brother leave their family and old lives behind to flee unwittingly into another uprising--in austere and radical Paris. Sylvie quickly becomes enamored with the aims of the Revolution, as well as with the revolutionaries themselves--most notably Maximilien Robespierre and his mistress, Cornélie Duplay. As a rising leader and abolitionist, Robespierre sees an opportunity to exploit Sylvie's race and abandonment of her aristocratic roots as an example of his ideals, while the strong-willed Cornélie offers Sylvie safe harbor and guidance in free thought. Sylvie battles with her past complicity in a slave society and her future within this new world order as she finds herself increasingly torn between Robespierre's ideology and Cornélie's love. When the Reign of Terror descends, Sylvie must decide whether to become an accomplice while a new empire rises on the bones of innocents...or risk losing her head.

Author : Evelyn Glenn
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780877225645

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Issei, Nisei, War Bride by Evelyn Glenn Pdf

Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service Evelyn Nakano Glenn "A richly detailed and sophisticated examination of...how historical and economic forces restricted women's lives and how women devised strategies for dealing with their plight." --Canadian Woman Studies In this unique study of Japanese American women employed as domestic workers, Evelyn Nakano Glenn reveals through historical research and in-depth interviews how the careers of these strong but oppressed women affected the history of Asian immigration in the San Francisco-Bay Area. Three generations of women speak in their own words about coping with degraded employment and how this work related to family and community life. The disproportionate concentration of Japanese American women in domestic service from the early part of this century to the present resulted from their status as immigrants and women of color in a race and gender stratified local labor market. The three generations covered by this study--pre-1924 immigrants (issei), first American born generation (nisei), and post-World War II immigrants (war brides)--were subjected to multiple forms of oppression but were not appendages of men nor passive victims. Dr. Glenn shows how their struggles to achieve autonomy, dignity, and a suitable livelihood were essential to the survival of the family and the community. Although unique in many ways, the situation of the Japanese American woman has important parallels with that of other women of color in the United States. Ironically her role as a domestic cast her in a menial, degraded job but often elevated her to the position of valued confidant to her employer. Issei, Nisei, War Bride is the first study to offer a sociological/historical perspective on these women. It addresses issues about the nature of labor systems in capitalist economies, the role of immigrant and racial ethnic women in those systems, and the consequences of participation in race and gender stratified systems for minority families and communities. Reviews "A beautifully written, well-organized, and sociologically rich study of three generations of Japanese-American women who worked as domestics. Glenn's study fits well into a women's studies collection, particularly with those materials focusing on immigrants or the working class." --Choice "... A much welcome contribution to the literature on women and work and on Japanese American women, in particular. Glenn has artfully combined a rich case study approach with detailed sociodemographics in an historical framework.... Glenn writes well and skillfully incorporates detailed historical and demographic facts with a descriptive style. The presentation of labor statistics is excellent.... This book is an important contribution, not only to Asian American Studies but to women's studies and the literature on labor and immigrant groups." --Amerasia Journal "A revealing view into the role of Japanese women immigrants in the United States not only as domestic workers but also in their family lives. This study is enlivened by the life stories and quotations from the women themselves..." --Edwin O. Reischauer "This work is a valuable contribution to the literature on immigration and an important addition to the literature on occupations. It contains a fascinating and highly readable account of the array of perspectives on work and family that Glenn was uniquely positioned to collect from Japanese women and provides an extremely useful study for those who teach women and work, gender roles, and sociology of occupations courses." --Arlene Kaplan Daniels About the Author(s) Evelyn Nakano Glenn is Associate Professor of Sociology at State University of New York at Binghamton.

Author : Eileen Sunada Sarasohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008570544

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The Issei, Portrait of a Pioneer by Eileen Sunada Sarasohn Pdf

Author : Issei Oral History Project
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Christianity
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035429641

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Issei Christians by Issei Oral History Project Pdf

Author : Eiichiro Azuma
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195159400

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Between Two Empires by Eiichiro Azuma Pdf

'Between Two Empires' probes the complexities of prewar Japanese American community to show how Japanese in America occupied an in-between space between American nationality and Japanese racial identity.

Author : Daniel M. Masterson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252053986

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The Japanese in Latin America by Daniel M. Masterson Pdf

Latin America is home to 1.5 million persons of Japanese descent. Combining detailed scholarship with rich personal histories, Daniel M. Masterson, with the assistance of Sayaka Funada-Classen, presents the first comprehensive study of the patterns of Japanese migration on the continent as a whole. When the United States and Canada tightened their immigration restrictions in 1907, Japanese contract laborers began to arrive at mines and plantations in Latin America. The authors examine Japanese agricultural colonies in Latin America, as well as the subsequent cultural networks that sprang up within and among them, and the changes that occurred as the Japanese moved from wage labor to ownership of farms and small businesses. They also explore recent economic crises in Brazil, Argentina, and Peru, which, combined with a strong Japanese economy, caused at least a quarter million Latin American Japanese to migrate back to Japan. Illuminating authoritative research with extensive interviews with migrants and their families, The Japanese in Latin America tells the story of immigrants who maintained strong allegiances to their Japanese roots, even while they struggled to build lives in their new countries.

Author : Brian Niiya,Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Publisher : VNR AG
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0816026807

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Japanese American History by Brian Niiya,Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.) Pdf

Produced under the auspices of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, this comprehensive reference culls information from primary sources--Japanese-language texts and documents, oral histories, and other previously neglected or obscured materials--to document the history and nature of the Japanese American experience as told by the people who lived it. The volume is divided into three major sections: a chronology with some 800 entries; a 400-entry encyclopedia covering people, events, groups, and cultural terms; and an annotated bibliography of major works on Japanese Americans. Includes about 80 bandw illustrations and photographs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Jane Iwamura,Paul Spickard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136712739

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Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America by Jane Iwamura,Paul Spickard Pdf

Asian and Pacific Islander Americans constitute the fastest-growing racial group in the United States. They are also one of the most religiously diverse. Through them Asian traditions such as Hinduism, Sikhism, Confucianism, and Buddhism have been introduced into every major city and across a wide swath of Middle America. The contributors to this volume provide an essential inter-disciplinary resource for the study of Asian and Pacific Islander American religion.

Author : Yukiko Kimura
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824814819

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Issei by Yukiko Kimura Pdf

Author : Linda Tamura
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0252063597

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The Hood River Issei by Linda Tamura Pdf

Gathers oral histories from Japanese immigrants, most of them women, that discuss leaving Japan, life as farmers and orchard workers, and the World War II relocation.

Author : Robert K. Fitts
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496220899

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Issei Baseball by Robert K. Fitts Pdf

Baseball has been called America’s true melting pot, a game that unites us as a people. Issei Baseball is the story of the pioneers of Japanese American baseball, Harry Saisho, Ken Kitsuse, Tom Uyeda, Tozan Masko, Kiichi Suzuki, and others—young men who came to the United States to start a new life but found bigotry and discrimination. In 1905 they formed a baseball club in Los Angeles and began playing local amateur teams. Inspired by the Waseda University baseball team’s 1905 visit to the West Coast, they became the first Japanese professional baseball club on either side of the Pacific and barnstormed across the American Midwest in 1906 and 1911. Tens of thousands came to see “how the minions of the Mikado played the national pastime.” As they played, the Japanese earned the respect of their opponents and fans, breaking down racial stereotypes. Baseball became a bridge between the two cultures, bringing Japanese and Americans together through the shared love of the game. Issei Baseball focuses on the small group of men who formed the first professional and semiprofessional Japanese baseball clubs. These players’ story tells the history of early Japanese American baseball, including the placement of Saisho, Kitsuse, and their families in relocation camps during World War II and the Japanese immigrant experience.

Author : Duncan Ryuken Williams,Tomoe Moriya
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780252035333

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Issei Buddhism in the Americas by Duncan Ryuken Williams,Tomoe Moriya Pdf

Rich in primary sources and featuring contributions from scholars on both sides of the Pacific, Issei Buddhism in the Americas upends boundaries and categories that have tied Buddhism to Asia and illuminates the social and spiritual role that the religion has played in the Americas. While Buddhists in Japan had long described the migration of the religion as traveling from India, across Asia, and ending in Japan, this collection details the movement of Buddhism across the Pacific to the Americas. Leading the way were pioneering, first-generation Issei priests and their followers who established temples, shared Buddhist teachings, and converted non-Buddhists in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book explores these pioneering efforts in the context of Japanese diasporic communities and immigration history and the early history of Buddhism in the Americas. The result is a dramatic exploration of the history of Asian immigrant religion that encompasses such topics as Japanese language instruction in Hawaiian schools, the Japanese Canadian community in British Columbia, the roles of Buddhist song culture, Tenriyko ministers in America, and Zen Buddhism in Brazil. Contributors are Michihiro Ama, Noriko Asato, Masako Iino, Tomoe Moriya, Lori Pierce, Cristina Rocha, Keiko Wells, Duncan Ryûken Williams, and Akihiro Yamakura.