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Between Two Empires

Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America

Eiichiro Azuma author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:24th Mar '05

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The incarceration of Japanese Americans has been discredited as a major blemish in American democratic tradition. Accompanying this view is the assumption that the ethnic group help unqualified allegiance to the United States. Between Two Empires probes the complexities of prewar Japanese America to show how Japanese in America held an in-between space between the United States and the empire of Japan, between American nationality and Japanese racial identity.

a brilliant chronicle of how pre-World War II Japanese immigrants to the United States forged a complex transnational identity by negotiating the cultural, socio-economic, ideological, and racial contexts of both the Japanese and American empire-building. * International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Volume 7 *

  • Winner of Honourable Mention, Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the organization of American Historians Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Winner of the 2004-2005 Hiroshi Shumizu Award of the Japanese Association for American Studies.

ISBN: 9780195159400

Dimensions: 157mm x 236mm x 23mm

Weight: 564g

320 pages