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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