Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America

The incarceration of Japanese Americans has been discredited as a major blemish in American democratic tradition. Accompanying this view is the assumption that the ethnic group help unqualified allegiance to the United States. Between Two Empires probes the complexities of prewar Japanese America to show how Japanese in America held an in-between space between the United States and the empire of Japan, between American nationality and Japanese racial identity.

History

Azuma, Eiichiro

Americas

Oxford University Press

The incarceration of Japanese Americans has been discredited as a major blemish in American democratic tradition. Accompanying this view is the assumption that the ethnic group help unqualified allegiance to the United States. Between Two Empires probes the complexities of prewar Japanese America to show how Japanese in America held an in-between space between the United States and the empire of Japan, between American nationality and Japanese racial identity.

In Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese America with Japan’s colonial empire through the exchange of migrant bodies, expansionist ideas, colonial expertise, and capital in the Asia-Pacific basin before World War II. The trajectories of Japanese transpacific migrants exemplified a prevalent national structure of thought and practice that not only functioned to shore up the backbone of Japan’s empire building but also promoted the borderless quest for Japanese overseas development. Eiichiro Azuma offers new interpretive perspectives that will allow readers to understand Japanese settler colonialism’s capacity to operate outside the aegis of the home empire.

In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire (Volume 17) (Asia Pacific Modern)

University of California Press

Published in conjunction with an exhibition developed collaboratively with the Oregon community. Includes original poetry by Japanese American poet laureate Lawson Fusao Inada and rare photographs of pre-war Issei life in the Northwest.

In this great land of freedom: The Japanese pioneers of Oregon

Inada, Lawson Fusao

Kikumura, Akemi

Worthington, Mary

Asia

Japanese American National Museum

Discover the stories behind your favorite cup of Kona coffee in this photo-filled exhibition catalogue. From the establishment of family run farms at the turn of the century to the intercultural relationships that marked this "frontier life," this catalogue presents a concise and readable account of Kona's coffee history.

The Kona Coffee Story: Along the Hawai'I Belt Road

Kikumura-Yano, Akemi

Iki, Darcie C.

Sogi, Francis Y.

Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Japanese Amer Natl Museum

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