Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations 9780824867621

Table of contents :
Contents
Note to the Reader
Acknowledgments
TRANS-PACIFIC Japanese American Studies
Introduction
PART I: ORIENTATION
CHAPTER 1: Shifting Grounds in Japanese American Studies Reconsidering “Race” and “Class” in a Trans-Pacific Geopolitical-Historical Context
PART II: RACIALIZATIONS
CHAPTER 2: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being The Contemporary Racialization of Japanese/ Asian Americans
CHAPTER 3: Negotiating Categories and Transgressing (Mixed-) Race Identities The Art and Narratives of Roger Shimomura, Laura Kina, and Shizu Saldamando
PART III: COMMUNITIES
CHAPTER 4: Trans-Pacific Localism and the Creation of a Fishing Colony Pre–World War II Taiji Immigrants on Terminal Island, California
CHAPTER 5: Vernacular Representations of Race and the Making of a Japanese Ethnoracial Community in Los Angeles
CHAPTER 6: Negotiating the Boundaries of Race, Caste, and Mibun Meiji-era Diplomatic and Immigrant Responses to North American Categories of Exclusion
PART IV: INTERSECTIONS
CHAPTER 7: Americanization and Beika Gender and Racialization of the Issei Community in California before World War II
CHAPTER 8: Sansei Women and the Gendering of Yellow Power in Southern California, 1960s–1970s
PART V: BORDERLANDS
CHAPTER 9: Nakayoshi Group Postwar Okinawan Women’s Articulation of Identity in America
CHAPTER 10: What Brings Korean Immigrants to Japantown? Commodifying Racial Differences in the Age of Globalization
PART VI: REORIENTATIONS
CHAPTER 11: The Making of a Japanese American Race, and Why Are There No “Immigrants” in Postwar Nikkei History and Community? The Problems of Generation, Region, and Citizenship in Japanese America
CHAPTER 12: Reorienting Asian American Studies in Asia and the Pacific
PART VII: PEDAGOGIES
CHAPTER 13: Teaching Asian American Studies in Japan Challenges and Possibilities
CHAPTER 14: Japanese American Progressives A Case Study in Identity Formation
PART VIII: DIALOGUING SUBJECT POSITIONS
Notes from Shinagawa, July 28–29, 2012
Thoughts on Positionality
Asian American History across the Pacific
Japanese Americans in Academia and Political Discourse in Japan
Location, Positionality, and Community Studying and Teaching Japanese America in the United States and Japan
Positions In-Between Hapa, Buddhist, and Japanese American Studies
Toward More Equal Dialogue
Contributors
Index

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