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Title

Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest : Japanese Americans & Japanese Canadians in the twentieth century / edited by Louis Fiset and Gail M. Nomura.

Author

Nikkei Experience in the Pacific Nowthwest Conference (2000 : University of Washington)

Publication

Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Fiset, Louis.
• Nomura, Gail M.

Description

xii, 348 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography ; 11

Subjects

• Japanese Americans > Northwest, Pacific > Ethnic identity > Congresses
• Northwest, Pacific > History > 20th century > Congresses
• Japanese > British Columbia > Ethnic identity > Congresses
• Regionalism > Northwest, Pacific > History > 20th century > Congresses
• Northwest, Pacific > Ethnic relations > Congresses
• Japanese Americans > Northwest, Pacific > History > 20th century > Congresses
• Immigrants > Northwest, Pacific > History > 20th century > Congresses
• Japanese > British Columbia > History > 20th century > Congresses

Note

• Papers from a conference held at the University of Washington from May 4 to 6, 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Nikkei in the Pacific northwest / Luis Piset and Gail M. Nomura -- Writing racial barriers into law: upholding B.C.'s denial of the vote to its Japanese Canadian citizens, Homma v. Cunningham, 1902 / Andrea Geiger-Adams -- Becoming "local" Japanese: Issei adaptive strategies on the Yakama Indian reservation / Gail M. Nomura -- Yasutaro Yamaga: Fraser Valley berry farmer, community leader, and strategist / Michiko Midge Ayukawa -- Americanization vs. Japanese cultural maintenance: analyzing Seattle's Nihongo Tokuhon, 1920 / Noriko Asato -- "The nail that sticks up gets hit": the architecture of Japanese American identity in the urban environment, 1885-1942 / Gail Lee Durbow -- Four Hirabayashi cousins: a question of identity / James A. Hirabayashi -- The Minidoka draft resisters in a federal kangaroo court / Eric L. Muller -- Words do matter: a note on inappropriate terminology and the incarceration of the Japanese Americans / Roger Daniels -- In the matter of Iwao Matsushita: a government decision to intern a Seattle Japanese enemy alien in World War II / Louis Fiset -- The "free zone" Nikkei: Japanese Americans in Idaho and eastern Oregon in World War II / Robert C. Sims -- Lessons in citizenship, 1945-1949: the delayed return of the Japanese to Canada's Pacific coast / Patricia E. Roy -- Peculiar odyssey: newsman Jimmie Omura's removal from and regeneration within Nikkei society, history, and memory / Arthur A. Hansen -- Reclaiming and reinventing "Powell Street": reconstruction of the Japanese-Canadian community in post-World War II Vancouver.

Call Number

IEA 05-4536

ISBN

0295984619 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004021217

OCLC

56517802

Conference

Nikkei Experience in the Pacific Nowthwest Conference (2000 : University of Washington)

Title

Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest : Japanese Americans & Japanese Canadians in the twentieth century / edited by Louis Fiset and Gail M. Nomura.

Imprint

Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, c2005.

Series

The Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography ; 11

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Fiset, Louis.

Nomura, Gail M.

Research Call Number

IEA 05-4536