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Author Kurashige, Lon, 1964-

Title Japanese American celebration and conflict : a history of ethnic identity and festival, 1934-1990 / Lon Kurashige.

Publication Info. Berkeley, Cal. : University of California Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 274 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series American crossroads ; 8
American crossroads ; 8.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index.
Contents Illustrations; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Problem of Racial Rearticulation; One: Succeeding Immigrants: Ethnic Leadership and the Origins of Nisei Week; Two: Rise and Fall of Biculturalism: Consumption, Socialization, and Americanism; Three: War and the American Front: Collaboration, Protest, and Class in the Internment Crisis; Four: Defining Integration: The Return of Nisei Week and Remaking of Japanese American Identity; Five: The New Cosmopolitanism: From Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy.
Summary Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and cultures? In exploring the Japanese American experience, Lon Kurashige recasts this tangled debate by examining what assimilation and ethnic retention have meant to a particular community over a long period of time.
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Subject Japanese Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Japanese Americans.
California -- Los Angeles.
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Japanese Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social conditions.
Japanese Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Ethnic identity.
Ethnicity.
Ethnic festivals -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
Ethnic festivals.
History.
Citizens' associations -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
Citizens' associations.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Indexed Term Humaniora Historie.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Kurashige, Lon, 1964- Japanese American celebration and conflict. Berkeley, Cal. : University of California Press, ©2002 0520227425 (DLC) 2001006510 (OCoLC)48376034
ISBN 9780520926479 (electronic book)
0520926471 (electronic book)
9780520227422 (alkaline paper)
0520227425 (alkaline paper)
9780520227439 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0520227433 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1597346896
9781597346894