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Between two empires : race, history, and transnationalism in Japanese America
Before World War II, Japanese immigrants, or Issei, forged a unique transnational identity between their native land and the United States. Whether merchants, community leaders, or rural farmers, Japanese immigrants shared a collective racial identity as aliens ineligible for American citizenship, even as they worked to form communities in the American West. At the same time, Imperial Japan considered Issei and their descendents part of its racial expansion abroad and enlisted them to further their nationalist goals. This book shows how Japanese immigrants negotiated their racial and class positions alongside white Americans, Chinese, and Filipinos at a time when Japan was fighting their countries of origin. Utilizing rare Japanese and English language sources, the book stresses the tight grips, as well as the clashing influences, the Japanese and American states exercised over Japanese immigrants and how they created identities that diverged from either national narrative.
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Race for empire
Race for Empire offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. In parallel case studies—of Japanese Americans mobilized to serve in the United States Army and of Koreans recruited or drafted into the Japanese military—T. Fujitani examines the U.S. and Japanese empires as they struggled to manage racialized populations while waging total war. Fujitani probes governmental policies and analyzes representations of these soldiers—on film, in literature, and in archival documents—to reveal how characteristics of racism, nationalism, capitalism, gender politics, and the family changed on both sides. He demonstrates that the United States and Japan became increasingly alike over the course of the war, perhaps most tellingly in their common attempts to disavow racism even as they reproduced it in new ways and forms.
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Are We There Yet? Perceptions of Racial Progress Among Racial Minorities
Given the transition from a society built on racialized slave labor and settler colonial genocide, current conditions in the United States often are celebrated as evidence of enormous racial progress. However, survey and experimental data reveal a significant gap in perceptions of racial progress between Black and White people (Brodish, Brazy, and Devine 2008; Eibach and Ehrlinger 2006; Purdie-Vaughns and Eibach 2013). These scholars find that Whites compare current racial conditions to the past and conclude that racial equality has been achieved, whereas non-Whites compare present conditions to an ideal and conclude that racial equality is far from being achieved. These perceptual differences have consequences for attitudes toward affirmative action (Brodish, Brazy, and Devine 2008; DeBell 2017), decisions about how best to combat racial inequality, and beliefs about whether economic inequality persists (Onyeador et al. 2019). The United States has long been a multiracial nation, and the population of non-White people continues to grow (Frey 2018). With continued growth, a broader spectrum of racial groups will weigh in on racial politics—deciding whether there are problems and, if so, where responsibility lies. To better capture these dynamics, this article extends the study of perceived racial discrimination to include beliefs about Asian Americans and Latina/os. I address two research questions: (1) Do people believe that rates of racial discrimination have changed from 1968 to 2018?; and (2) Which people, events, and themes come to mind when evaluating the prevalence of racial discrimination?
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Correlates in Children's Experiences of Parents' Racial Socialization Behaviors
This study examined racial socialization processes among 94 African American parents of third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade children as they were predicted by children's ethnic identity exploration and unfair treatment as well as by parents' ethnic identity and discrimination experiences. Findings indicated that children's ethnic identity exploration and parents' perceptions that their children had been treated unfairly by an adult because of their race were both significantly associated with the frequency of messages to children regarding discrimination (Preparation for Bias). Parents' perceptions of children's unfair treatment from an adult and children's perceptions that they had been treated unfairly by peers were significantly associated with parents' cautions and warnings to children about intergroup relations (Promotion of Mistrust). Moreover, the influence of parents' perceptions on Promotion of Mistrust were especially pronounced when children also reported unfair treatment from adults. Children's identity exploration and unfair treatment were not associated with parents' emphasis on ethnic pride, heritage, and diversity (Cultural Socialization/Pluralism). Thus, findings suggest that parental factors are most central in the racial socialization messages that children receive. However, children's perceptions of discrimination and information seeking regarding their own history appear to have some influence on parental messages about race.
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Ghost in the Kitchen: Multiracial Korean Americans (Re)Defining Cultural Authenticity
This scholarly essay explores some techniques that multiracial Korean Americans employ to trouble traditional notions of cultural authenticity as markers for racial/ethnic identity construction. I position multiracial individuals as foils to the common assumptions that cultural authenticity requires “native” lived experience, “full bloodedness”, or a particular level of linguistic competency, in favor of cultural competency, analyzing the web community, HalfKorean.com. The site is a U.S.-based community of multiracial Korean Americans, where narrations of food and Korean motherwork play roles in many elements of the site, and in different ways work to reinforce new and adaptable forms of authenticity. Paying particular attention to the ways that cultural knowledge on the individual level becomes a marker for shaping community, I position Korean motherwork and household practices as vehicles of analysis. These embodied cultural practices inform community building practices, becoming critical variables for multiracial Korean Americans to exert cultural knowledge and expertise, authenticating flexible racial/cultural identities, which is an act of embodying what I term “plastic authenticity”. Multiracial bodies are inherently perceived as racially in-authentic; however, plastic authenticity is a framework that allows for expressions of identity and memory that resist this notion, grounded in their proximity to Korean women/motherhood.
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Becoming Nikkei: creating, challenging, and expanding Nikkei identification among Chileans of Japanese descent
The term Nikkei emerged in the Americas, post-Second World War, to describe persons of Japanese descent living abroad. Based on an ethnographic study with Chileans of Japanese descent, we propose that Nikkei can be productively understood as an ethno-regional identity. Building on and departing from scholarship that focuses on Nikkei identities in Peru and Brazil in national/global/diasporic terms, we highlight the role of Nikkei persons and groups in Latin America in developing Chilean Nikkei identity and community. While some Chileans come to identify as Nikkei, others are unaware of or distance themselves from it. While definitions of Nikkei vary, Chilean Nikkei organizations are expanding their understanding of the term. We discuss diverse members’ responses towards such inclusiveness as they negotiate the consanguineous boundaries of Nikkei identity. In theorizing Nikkei as an ethno-regional identity and highlighting the role of institutions in the formation and promotion of Nikkei identity, we contribute to decentering identity politics from individual choice and recentering identity in processes of diaspora formation and community-making.
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From American City to Japanese Village: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Implicit Race Attitudes
This study examined the development of implicit race attitudes in American and Japanese children and adults. Implicit ingroup bias was present early in both populations, and remained stable at each age tested (age 6, 10, and adult). Similarity in magnitude and developmental course across these 2 populations suggests that implicit intergroup bias is an early-emerging and fundamental aspect of human social cognition. However, implicit race attitudes toward favored outgroups are more positive in older than in younger participants, indicating that \"cultural prestige\" enjoyed by a group moderates implicit bias as greater knowledge of group status is acquired. These results demonstrate (a) the ready presence, (b) early cultural invariance, and (c) subsequent cultural moderation of implicit attitudes toward own and other groups.
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Intergenerational Experiences of Discrimination in Chinese American Families: Influences of Socialization and Stress
In this longitudinal study, we investigated the mechanisms by which Chinese American parents' experiences of discrimination influenced their adolescents' ethnicity-related stressors (i.e., cultural misfit, discrimination, attitudes toward education). We focused on whether parents' ethnic-racial socialization practices and perpetual foreigner stress moderated or mediated this relationship. Participants were 444 Chinese American families. Results indicated no evidence of moderation, but we observed support for mediation. Parental experiences of discrimination were associated with more ethnic-racial socialization practices and greater parental perpetual foreigner stress. More ethnic-racial socialization was related to greater cultural misfit in adolescents, whereas more perpetual foreigner stress was related to adolescents' poorer attitudes toward education and more reported discrimination. Relationships between mediators and outcomes were stronger for fathers than for mothers.
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