They Call Me Moses Masaoka
Title | They Call Me Moses Masaoka PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Masaoka |
Publisher | William Morrow |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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One of the first Japanese-Americans to volunteer for service during World War II, Mike Masaoka spearheaded the drive to eliminate race as a consideration in the American naturalization laws. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.
WE HEREBY REFUSE
Title | WE HEREBY REFUSE PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Abe |
Publisher | Chin Music Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2021-07-16 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1634050312 |
Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice. The story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. Japanese Americans complied when evicted from their homes in World War II -- but many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. In this groundbreaking graphic novel, meet JIM AKUTSU, the inspiration for John Okada’s No-No Boy, who refuses to be drafted from the camp at Minidoka when classified as a non-citizen, an enemy alien; HIROSHI KASHIWAGI, who resists government pressure to sign a loyalty oath at Tule Lake, but yields to family pressure to renounce his U.S. citizenship; and MITSUYE ENDO, a reluctant recruit to a lawsuit contesting her imprisonment, who refuses a chance to leave the camp at Topaz so that her case could reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Based upon painstaking research, We Hereby Refuse presents an original vision of America’s past with disturbing links to the American present.
Perilous Memories
Title | Perilous Memories PDF eBook |
Author | Takashi Fujitani |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 2001-06-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822325642 |
DIVA rethinking of the differing national memories of the Second World War in the Pacific in light of recent theories of nationalism, imperialism, and colonialism./div
Reorienting the Pure Land
Title | Reorienting the Pure Land PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Kenji Masatsugu |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2023-07-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0824896572 |
Post–World War II historical developments, including Japanese American resettlement, the U.S. occupation of Japan, the Cold War, and decolonization in an emerging “Third World,” created both a climate of uncertainty and possibility for the future of Japanese American Buddhism in the United States. As both a racial minority and as adherents of a non-Christian religious tradition with roots in Asia, Nikkei Buddhists faced distinct challenges in asserting their religion as part of their ethnic heritage. Adaptations associated with Nisei Buddhism sought to prioritize cultural assimilation as prescribed by U.S. government officials and other proponents of racial liberalism, while also seeking to maintain Shin Buddhist tradition, claiming it as integral to Nikkei heritage and part of a tradition of American religious freedom. Nisei also presented Buddhism as a world religion, which served as more than a rhetorical strategy, since many Nisei extended their vision of the sangha (community of Buddhists) to include connections with Buddhists in Japan and South and Southeast Asia. But Nisei Buddhism's emerging influence among American Shin Buddhist communities would be challenged by converts and a younger generation of more progressive Nikkei during the 1960s. Reorienting the Pure Land: Nisei Buddhism in the Transwar Years, 1943–1965, is the first historical study of Nisei Shin Buddhists in the United States during the tumultuous period between World War II and the early decades of the Cold War. This book examines Nisei-led adaptations to American Shin Buddhist institutions and organizations in an effort to reconstitute Nikkei Buddhist communities following the end of World War II and release from U.S. government sponsored concentration camps. Taking a transnational perspective, this text establishes the importance of Buddhism in shaping networks in the United States and across the globe, and is the first to highlight the centrality of ethnic Buddhism in building the terms of racial inclusion and the construction of Asian Americans as a model minority. In addressing themes of religious adaptation, cultural nationalism, and global connection, Reorienting the Pure Land makes new contributions to the fields of Japanese American history, the history of Buddhism in America, and the study of Cold War racial liberalism.
Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest
Title | Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Fiset |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 2011-10-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0295800097 |
Challenging the notion that Nikkei individuals before and during World War II were helpless pawns manipulated by forces beyond their control, the diverse essays in this rich collection focus on the theme of resistance within Japanese American and Japanese Canadian communities to twentieth-century political, cultural, and legal discrimination. They illustrate how Nikkei groups were mobilized to fight discrimination through assertive legal challenges, community participation, skillful print publicity, and political and economic organization. Comprised of all-new and original research, this is the first anthology to highlight the contributions and histories of Nikkei within the entire Pacific Northwest, including British Columbia.
When Can We Go Back to America?
Title | When Can We Go Back to America? PDF eBook |
Author | Susan H. Kamei |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 736 |
Release | 2022-09-27 |
Genre | JUVENILE NONFICTION |
ISBN | 1481401459 |
"An oral history about Japanese internment during World War II, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, from the perspective of children and young people affected"--
Teaching U.S. History Beyond the Textbook
Title | Teaching U.S. History Beyond the Textbook PDF eBook |
Author | Yohuru Rashied Williams |
Publisher | Corwin Press |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2008-11-11 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1452298777 |
Aligned with national standards, these strategies and sample lessons turn learners into history detectives as they solve historical mysteries, prepare arguments for famous cases, and more.