Nisei/Sansei
Subtitle: shifting Japanese American identities and politics
By: Jere Takahashi.
Series: Asian American history and culture
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Japanese Americans -- Politics and government.; Japanese Americans -- Social conditions.; Japanese Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Description: In Nisei/Sansei: Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics, Jere Takahashi challenges studies that describe the Japanese American community's essentially linear process toward assimilation into U.S. society. As he develops a complex and nuanced account of Japanese American life, he shows that a diversity of opinion and debate about effective political strategy characterized each generation of Japanese Americans.

As he investigates the ways in which each generation attempted to advance its interests and concerns, he uncovers the struggles over key issues and introduces the community activists whose voices have been muffled by assimilation narratives. His focus is on personal and social action; on individual activists, power, and ideological shifts within the community, and generational change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-249) and index.