Japanese Americans
Subtitle: the formation and transformations of an ethnic group
By: Paul Spickard.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780813544335
Subjects: Japanese Americans -- History; Immigrants -- United States -- History
Description: "Since 1855, nearly half a million Japanese immigrants have settled in the United States, and today more than twice that number claim Japanese ancestry. While these immigrants worked hard, established networks, and repeatedly distinguished themselves as entrepreneurs, they also encountered harsh discrimination. Nowhere was this more evident than on the West Coast during World War II, when virtually the entire population of Japanese Americans was forced into internment camps solely on the basis of ethnicity."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Japanese Americans and ethnicity; title: The Japan they left; title: Emigrants and frontiersmen; title: Immigrants and family folk; title: Born in America; title: Internment; title: Since World War II; title: The state of Japanese American history, 1994; title: Writing Japanese American history, 1994-2007.