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Nisei Sansei

Nisei Sansei

Japanese American Identity, Culture and Politics

by J Takahashi
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/10/1997

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To talk about \u0022political style\u0022 is to acknowledge a dynamic and somewhat improvisational approach to politics; it is to acknowledge the need to work within the limits presented by tradition, resources, and social context. To speak of \u0022political style\u0022 in relation to a particular ethnic group is to recognize their agency in shaping their history. 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 who voices have been muffled by assimilation narratives.
Takahashi's approach to political style includes the ways that Japanese American mustered and managed political resources, but also encompasses their on-going efforts at self-definition. His focus, then, is on personal and social action; on individual activists, power, and ideological shifts within the community, and generational change. In telling the story of the community's complex and dynamic relationship to the larger society, he highlights individuals who contributed to the struggles and debates that paved the way for the emergence of a distinct Japanese American identity.
ISBN:
9781566395502
9781566395502
Category:
Ethnic studies
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-10-1997
Publisher:
Temple University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
261
Dimensions (mm):
250x150x15mm
Weight:
0.67kg

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