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Author : David Francis Martin,Nicolette Bromberg
Publisher : Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0295990856
"In association with University of Washington Libraries and the Henry Art Gallery."
Author : J. K
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555079060
Author : Linda Tamura
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295804460
Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence is a compelling story of courage, community, endurance, and reparation. It shares the experiences of Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, fighting on the front lines in Italy and France, serving as linguists in the South Pacific, and working as cooks and medics. The soldiers were from Hood River, Oregon, where their families were landowners and fruit growers. Town leaders, including veterans' groups, attempted to prevent their return after the war and stripped their names from the local war memorial. All of the soldiers were American citizens, but their parents were Japanese immigrants and had been imprisoned in camps as a consequence of Executive Order 9066. The racist homecoming that the Hood River Japanese American soldiers received was decried across the nation. Linda Tamura, who grew up in Hood River and whose father was a veteran of the war, conducted extensive oral histories with the veterans, their families, and members of the community. She had access to hundreds of recently uncovered letters and documents from private files of a local veterans' group that led the campaign against the Japanese American soldiers. This book also includes the little known story of local Nisei veterans who spent 40 years appealing their convictions for insubordination. Watch the book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHMcFdmixLk
Author : Frank Abe,Greg Robinson,Floyd Cheung
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295743530
No-No Boy, John Okada’s only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and, upon release from federal prison after the war, is cast out by his divided community. In 1957, the novel faced a similar rejection until it was rediscovered and reissued in 1976 to become a celebrated classic of American literature. As a result of Okada’s untimely death at age forty-seven, the author’s life and other works have remained obscure. This compelling collection offers the first full-length examination of Okada’s development as an artist, placing recently discovered writing by Okada alongside essays that reassess his lasting legacy. Meticulously researched biographical details, insight from friends and relatives, and a trove of intimate photographs illuminate Okada’s early life in Seattle, military service, and careers as a public librarian and a technical writer in the aerospace industry. This volume is an essential companion to No-No Boy.
Author : Xiaojing Zhou
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780295805429
Asian American literature abounds with complex depictions of American cities as spaces that reinforce racial segregation and prevent interactions across boundaries of race, culture, class, and gender. However, in Cities of Others, Xiaojing Zhou uncovers a much different narrative, providing the most comprehensive examination to date of how Asian American writers - both celebrated and overlooked - depict urban settings. Zhou goes beyond examining popular portrayals of Chinatowns by paying equal attention to life in other parts of the city. Her innovative and wide-ranging approach sheds new light on the works of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese American writers who bear witness to a variety of urban experiences and reimagine the American city as other than a segregated nation-space. Drawing on critical theories on space from urban geography, ecocriticism, and postcolonial studies, Zhou shows how spatial organization shapes identity in the works of Sui Sin Far, Bienvenido Santos, Meena Alexander, Frank Chin, Chang-rae Lee, Karen Tei Yamashita, and others. She also shows how the everyday practices of Asian American communities challenge racial segregation, reshape urban spaces, and redefine the identity of the American city. From a reimagining of the nineteenth-century flaneur figure in an Asian American context to providing a framework that allows readers to see ethnic enclaves and American cities as mutually constitutive and transformative, Zhou gives us a provocative new way to understand some of the most important works of Asian American literature.
Author : Greg Robinson
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295747972
From a title-winning boxer in Louisiana to a Broadway baritone in New York, Japanese Americans have long belied their popular representation as “quiet Americans.” Showcasing the lives and achievements of relatively unknown but remarkable people in Nikkei history, scholar and journalist Greg Robinson reveals the diverse experiences of Japanese Americans and explores a wealth of themes, including mixed-race families, artistic pioneers, mass confinement, civil rights activism, and queer history. Drawn primarily from Robinson’s popular writings in the San Francisco newspaper Nichi Bei Weekly and community website Discover Nikkei, The Unsung Great offers entertaining and compelling stories that challenge one-dimensional views of Japanese Americans. This collection breaks new ground by devoting attention to Nikkei beyond the West Coast—including the vibrant communities of New York and Chicago, as well as the little-known history of Japanese Americans in the US South. Expertly researched and accessibly written, The Unsung Great brings to light a constellation of varied and incredible life stories.
Author : Lisa M. Hoffman,Mary L. Hoffman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295748238
Tacoma’s vibrant Nihonmachi of the 1920s and '30s was home to a significant number of first generation Japanese immigrants and their second generation American children, and these families formed tight-knit bonds despite their diverse religious, prefectural, and economic backgrounds. As the city’s Nisei grew up attending the secular Japanese Language School, they absorbed the Meiji-era cultural practices and ethics of the previous generation. At the same time, they positioned themselves in new and dynamic ways, including resisting their parents and pursuing lives that diverged from traditional expectations. Becoming Nisei, based on more than forty interviews, shares stories of growing up in Japanese American Tacoma before the incarceration. Recording these early twentieth-century lives counteracts the structural forgetting and erasure of prewar histories in both Tacoma and many other urban settings after World War II. Lisa Hoffman and Mary Hanneman underscore both the agency of Nisei in these processes as well as their negotiations of prevailing social and power relations.
Author : Robert Wilson Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023057628
Author : Darryl Sollerh
Publisher : Darryl Sollerh
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780988725416
Author : Mystery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600106001
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Child rearing
ISBN : UVA:X002138625
Author : Jeanie Gushee
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780849964480
"Yours Is the Day, Lord, Yours Is the Night" gives a framework for prayerful devotions with a morning and evening prayer for each day of the year. The prayers have been selected to reflect the seasons and the liturgical calendar. They are intended not to replace your personal, spontaneous prayers but to serve as a springboard for them. Editors Jeanie and David Gushee have collected inspiring contributions from Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox sources; from all continents; from the Old Testament; and from each century of Christian history. "Yours Is the Day, Lord, Yours Is the Night" will enhance your commitment to God and personal connection to the Christian tradition and the Church universal. "
Author : Jed Rasula
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199396290
A sweeping cultural history that draws on music, literature, painting, and film, 'History of a Shiver' uncovers how art pioneered in the 19th century provided the foundation for modernist aesthetics.
Author : Richard Harvey
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738734705
Helps you learn how to attain the three stages of human awakening - the process of self-discovery, the transformation into authenticity, and the source of consciousness - on the inner journey to your true self. This guide describes how spiritual attainment is not an unreachable fantasy, but a logical extension of human development.
Author : John La Farge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Painting
ISBN : PURD:32754074451158