Trans-Pacific Japanese American studies [Texte imprimé] : conversations on race and racializations / edited by Yasuko Takezawa and Gary Y. Okihiro

Notes bibliogr.

Some historical and epistemological issues in Japanese American studies : reconsidering "race" and "class" in a trans-Pacific geopolitical-historical context / Yasuko Takezawa -- The unbearable whiteness of being : the contemporary racialization of Japanese/Asian America / Michael Omi -- Negotiating categories and transgressing (mixed) race identities : the artworks and narratives of Roger Shimomura, Laura Kina, and Shizu Saldamando / Yasuko Takezawa -- Trans-Pacific localism and the creation of a fishing colony : pre-World War II Taiji immigrants on Terminal Island, California / Yuko Konno -- Vernacular representations of race and the making of an ethnoracial community of Japanese in Los Angeles / Fuminori Minamikawa -- Negotiating the boundaries of race and caste : Meiji diplomatic and immigrant responses to North American categories of exclusion / Andrea Geiger -- Americanization and "beika" : gender and racialization of the issei community in California before World War II / Yuko Matsumoto -- Sansei women and the gendering of yellow power in southern California, 1960s-1970s / Valerie J. Matsumoto -- Nakayoshi Group : post-war Okinawan women's articulation of identity in America / Wesley Ueunten -- What brings Korean immigrants to Japantown? : commodifying racial differences in the age of globalization / Sachiko Kawakami -- 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 / Eiichiro Azuma -- Constructing a place of deconstruction, conversation, and mutual learning : towards a project of Asian American studies in "Asia" / Rika Nakamura -- Teaching Asian American studies in Japan : challenges and possibilities / Masumi Izumi -- Japanese American progressives : a case study in identity formation / Mari Matsuda -- Dialoguing Japanese American studies / Gary Y. Okihiro -- Thoughts on positionality / Noriko K. Ishii -- Asian American history across the Pacific / Lon Kurashige -- Thoughts on "nikkei studies and beyond" / Okiyoshi Takeda -- Location, positionality, and community : studying Asian American history across the Pacific / Yoko Tsukuda -- Positions in-between : hapa, Buddhist, and Japanese American studies / Duncan Ryuken Williams -- Toward more equal dialogue / Yasuko Takezawa