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Title Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest : Japanese Americans & Japanese Canadians in the twentieth century / edited by Louis Fiset and Gail M. Nomura
Edition 1st ed
Published Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 348 p.)
Series The Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography ; 11
The Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography ; 11
Contents Introduction: Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest / Luis Piset and Gail M. Nomura -- Writing racial barriers into law: upholding B.C.'s denial of the vote to its Japanese Canadian citizens, Homma v. Cunningham, 1902 / Andrea Geiger-Adams -- Becoming "local" Japanese: Issei adaptive strategies on the Yakama Indian Reservation / Gail M. Nomura -- Yasutaro Yamaga: Fraser Valley berry farmer, community leader, and strategist / Michiko Midge Ayukawa -- Americanization vs. Japanese cultural maintenance: analyzing Seattle's Nihongo Tokuhon, 1920 / Noriko Asato -- "The nail that sticks up gets hit": the architecture of Japanese American identity in the urban environment, 1885-1942 / Gail Lee Durbow -- Four Hirabayashi cousins: a question of identity / James A. Hirabayashi -- The Minidoka draft resisters in a federal kangaroo court / Eric L. Muller -- Words do matter: a note on inappropriate terminology and the incarceration of the Japanese Americans / Roger Daniels -- In the matter of Iwao Matsushita: a government decision to intern a Seattle Japanese enemy alien in World War II / Louis Fiset -- The "free zone" Nikkei: Japanese Americans in Idaho and eastern Oregon in World War II / Robert C. Sims -- Lessons in citizenship, 1945-1949: the delayed return of the Japanese to Canada's Pacific coast / Patricia E. Roy -- Peculiar odyssey: newsman Jimmie Omura's removal from and regeneration within Nikkei society, history, and memory / Arthur A. Hansen -- Reclaiming and reinventing "Powell Street": reconstruction of the Japanese-Canadian community in post-World War II Vancouver / Masumi Izumi
Notes Papers from a conference held at the University of Washington from May 4 to 6, 2000
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Japanese Americans -- Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
Japanese -- British Columbia -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
Japanese Americans -- Northwest, Pacific -- Ethnic identity -- Congresses
Japanese -- British Columbia -- Ethnic identity -- Congresses
Immigrants -- Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
Regionalism -- Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
HISTORY -- State & Local.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies.
Ethnic relations
Immigrants
Japanese
Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans -- Ethnic identity
Japanese -- Ethnic identity
Regionalism
SUBJECT Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
Northwest, Pacific -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses
Subject British Columbia
Pacific Northwest
USA -- Nordweststaaten
Kanada
Japaner.
Washington <DC, 2000>
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Fiset, Louis
Nomura, Gail M
LC no. 2021694680
ISBN 9780295800097
0295800097