Growing Up Nisei - 9780252068225

Growing Up NiseiRace, Generation, and Culture Among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-49\nAuthor(s): David K. Yoo\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252068225, 978-0252068225\nSynopsis\nThe place occupied by Japanese Americans within the annals of United States history often begins and ends with their cameo appearance as victims of incarceration after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In this provocative work, David K. Yoo broadens the scope of Japanese American history to examine how the second generationthe Niseishaped its identity and negotiated its place within American society.\n\nTracing the emergence of a dynamic Nisei subculture, Yoo shows how the foundations laid during the 1920s and 1930s helped many Nisei adjust to the upheaval of the concentration camps. Schools, racial-ethnic churches, and the immigrant press served not merely as waystations to assimilation but as tools by which .