Japanese Americans and cultural continuity : maintaining language and heritage
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Japanese Americans and cultural continuity : maintaining language and heritage
(Garland reference library of social science, v. 990 . Studies in the history of education ; v. 5)
Routledge, 2016
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"First published 1997 by Garland Publishing, Inc. This edition published 2013 by Routledge ... First issued in paperback 2016"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-167) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Although the United States is a nation of immigrants, few Americans are familiar with the ethnic community mother-tongue schools that nurtured and maintained the immigrants' language and culture. This book records the history of the schools of Americans of Japanese ancestry, focusing on the efforts of the Japanese community in California to maintain their linguistic and cultural heritage. The main focus of the book is on the period from the early 20th century to World War II, but it also surveys conditions during the war and in the postwar era up to the present. The coverage examines the difficulties experienced by the ancestors of the model minority, from the San Francisco Japanese school-children segregation incident in the early part of this century to private school control laws in the 1920s. The book also surveys the lives of Japanese Americans as college students in Japan in the 1930s, as well as looks at Japanese communities in Hawaii and Brazil.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Cherishing Our Heritage
- Chapter 2 Early Settlers
- Chapter 3 Against the Wind
- Chapter 4 Portent of War
- Chapter 5 The Bridge of Understanding over the Pacific
- Chapter 6 Possibilities and Limitations
- Chapter 7 Language and Heritage Maintenance Efforts During and After World War II
- Chapter 8 Epilogue
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