Japanese American Ethnicity: In Search Of Heritage And Homeland Across Generations

Introduction: Ethnic heritage across the generations: racialization, transnationalism, and homeland -- History and the second generation -- The prewar Nisei: Americanization and nationalist belonging -- The postwar Nisei: biculturalism and transnational identities -- Racialization, citizenship, and heritage -- Assimilation and loss of ethnic heritage among third-generation Japanese Americans -- The struggle for racial citizenship among later-generation Japanese Americans -- Ethnic revival among fourth-generation Japanese Americans -- Ethnic heritage, performance, and diasporicity -- Japanese American taiko and the remaking of tradition -- Performative authenticity and fragmented empowerment through taiko -- Diasporicity and Japanese Americans -- Conclusion: Japanese Americans ethnic legacies and the future

• | Author: Takeyuki Tsuda
• | Publisher: NYU Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 13, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 1479821780
• | ISBN-13: 9781479821785