Research Catalog

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 Northwest 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.

Summary

"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 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

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

Uniform Title

• Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography ; 11.
• Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

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

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0295984619 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004021217

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library