Between Two Empires
Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:7th Apr '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 held 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.
Firmly grounded in empirical evidence and theoretically sophisticated, Between Two Empires tells the complex story of Japanese immigration into the United States within the twin contexts of Japanese and U.S. empire-building and the development of transnational identities among the immigrants themselves. Azuma's prose is fluid; his analysis is supple, nuanced, and elegant. This is an exemplary work of enduring significance. * Sucheng Chan, University of California, Santa Barbara *
- Winner of 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: 9780195159417
Dimensions: 235mm x 164mm x 17mm
Weight: 440g
320 pages