Nikkei in the Americas (7 books)
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by Mark Rawitsch (Author) , Hiroshi Kashiwagi (Author) , Mira Shimabukuro (Author) and 7 more
In 1915, Jukichi and Ken Harada purchased a house on Lemon Street in Riverside, California. Close to their restaurant, church, and children's school, the house should have been a safe and healthy family home. Before the purchase, white neighbors objected because of the Haradas' Japanese ancestry, and the California Alien Land Law denied them real-estate ownership because they were not citizens. To bypass the law Mr. Harada bought the house in the names of his three youngest children, who were American-born citizens. Neighbors protested again, and the first Japanese American court test of the California Alien Land Law of 1913-The People of California v. Jukichi Harada-was the result.
Bringing this little-known story to light, The House on Lemon Street details the Haradas' decision to fight for the American dream. Chronicling their experiences from their immigration to the United States through their legal battle over their home, their incarceration during World War II, and their lives after the war, this book tells the story of the family's participation in the struggle for human and civil rights, social justice, property and legal rights, and fair treatment of immigrants in the United States.
The Harada family's quest for acceptance illuminates the deep underpinnings of anti-Asian animus, which set the stage for Executive Order 9066, and recognizes fundamental elements of our nation's anti-immigrant history that continue to shape the American story. It will be worthwhile for anyone interested in the Japanese American experience in the twentieth century, immigration history, public history, and law.
This publication was made possible with the support of Naomi, Kathleen, Ken, and Paul Harada, who donated funds in memory of their father, Harold Shigetaka Harada, honoring his quest for justice and civil rights. Additional support for this publication was also provided, in part, by UCLA's Aratani Endowed Chair as well as Wallace T. Kido, Joel B. Klein, Elizabeth A. Uno, and Rosalind K. Uno.
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The House on Lemon Street: Japanese Pioneers and the American Dream (Nikkei in the Americas) (Jun 15, 2012)
by Mark Rawitsch (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars (9)
In 1915, Jukichi and Ken Harada purchased a house on Lemon Street in Riverside, California. Close to their restaurant, church, and children's school, the house should have been a safe and healthy family home. Before the purchase, white neighbors objected because of the Haradas' Japanese ancestry, and the California Alien Land Law denied them real-estate ownership because they were not citizens. To bypass the law Mr. Harada bought the house in the names of his three youngest children, who were American-born citizens. Neighbors protested again, and the first Japanese American court test of the California Alien Land Law of 1913- The People of California v. Jukichi Harada-was the result.
Bringing this little-known story to light, The House on Lemon Street details the Haradas' decision to fight for the American dream. Chronicling their experiences from their immigration to the United States through their legal battle over their home, their incarceration during World War II, and their lives after the war, this book tells the story of the family's participation in the struggle for human and civil rights, social justice, property and legal rights, and fair treatment of immigrants in the United States.
The Harada family's quest for acceptance illuminates the deep underpinnings of anti-Asian animus, which set the stage for Executive Order 9066, and recognizes fundamental elements of our nation's anti-immigrant history that continue to shape the American story. It will be worthwhile for anyone interested in the Japanese American experience in the twentieth century, immigration history, public history, and law.
This publication was made possible with the support of Naomi, Kathleen, Ken, and Paul Harada, who donated funds in memory of their father, Harold Shigetaka Harada, honoring his quest for justice and civil rights. Additional support for this publication was also provided, in part, by UCLA's Aratani Endowed Chair as well as Wallace T. Kido, Joel B. Klein, Elizabeth A. Uno, and Rosalind K. Uno.
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Starting from Loomis and Other Stories (Nikkei in the Americas) (Oct 15, 2013)
by Hiroshi Kashiwagi (Author) , Tim Yamamura (Editor)
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A memoir in short stories, Starting from Loomis chronicles the life of accomplished writer, playwright, poet, and actor Hiroshi Kashiwagi. In this dynamic portrait of an aging writer trying to remember himself as a younger man, Kashiwagi recalls and reflects upon the moments, people, forces, mysteries, and choices—the things in his life that he cannot forget—that have made him who he is.
Central to this collection are Kashiwagi’s confinement at Tule Lake during World War II, his choice to answer “no” and “no” to questions 27 and 28 on the official government loyalty questionnaire, and the resulting lifelong stigma of being labeled a “No-No Boy” after his years of incarceration. His nonlinear, multifaceted writing not only reflects the fragmentations of memory induced by traumas of racism, forced removal, and imprisonment but also can be read as a bold personal response to the impossible conditions he and other Nisei faced throughout their lifetimes.
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Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration (Nikkei in the Americas) (Jan 15, 2016)
by Mira Shimabukuro (Author)
Relocating Authority examines the ways Japanese Americans have continually used writing to respond to the circumstances of their community’s mass imprisonment during World War II. Using both Nikkei cultural frameworks and community-specific history for methodological inspiration and guidance, Mira Shimabukuro shows how writing was used privately and publicly to individually survive and collectively resist the conditions of incarceration.
Examining a wide range of diverse texts and literacy practices such as diary entries, note-taking, manifestos, and multiple drafts of single documents, Relocating Authority draws upon community archives, visual histories, and Asian American history and theory to reveal the ways writing has served as a critical tool for incarcerees and their descendants. Incarcerees not only used writing to redress the “internment” in the moment but also created pieces of text that enabled and inspired further redress long after the camps had closed.
Relocating Authority highlights literacy’s enduring potential to participate in social change and assist an imprisoned people in relocating authority away from their captors and back to their community and themselves. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of ethnic and Asian American rhetorics, American studies, and anyone interested in the relationship between literacy and social justice.
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Barbed Voices: Oral History, Resistance, and the World War II Japanese American Social Disaster (Nikkei in the Americas) (Nov 5, 2018)
by Arthur A. Hansen (Author) , Lane Ryo Hirabayashi (Foreword)
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Barbed Voices is an engaging anthology of the most significant published articles written by the well-known and highly respected historian of Japanese American history Arthur Hansen, updated and annotated for contemporary context. Featuring selected inmates and camp groups who spearheaded resistance movements in the ten War Relocation Authority–administered compounds in the United States during World War II, Hansen’s writing provides a basis for understanding why, when, where, and how some of the 120,000 incarcerated Japanese Americans opposed the threats to themselves, their families, their reference groups, and their racial-ethnic community.
What historically was benignly termed the “Japanese American Evacuation” was in fact a social disaster, which, unlike a natural disaster, is man-made. Examining the emotional implications of targeted systemic incarceration, Hansen highlights the psychological traumas that transformed Japanese American identity and culture for generations after the war. While many accounts of Japanese American incarceration rely heavily on government documents and analytic texts, Hansen’s focus on first-person Nikkei testimonies gathered through powerful oral history interviews gives expression to the resistance to this social disaster.
Analyzing the evolving historical memory of the effects of wartime incarceration, Barbed Voices presents a new scholarly framework of enduring value. It will be of interest to students and scholars of oral history, US history, public history, and ethnic studies as well as the general public interested in the WWII experience and civil rights.
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Distant Islands: The Japanese American Community in New York City, 1876-1930s (Nikkei in the Americas) (Nov 15, 2018)
by Daniel H. Inouye (Author) , David Reimers (Foreword)
4.5 out of 5 stars (4)
Distant Islands is a modern narrative history of the Japanese American community in New York City between America's centennial year and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Often overshadowed in historical literature by the Japanese diaspora on the West Coast, this community, which dates back to the 1870s, has its own fascinating history.
The New York Japanese American community was a composite of several micro communities divided along status, class, geographic, and religious lines. Using a wealth of primary sources—oral histories, memoirs, newspapers, government documents, photographs, and more—Daniel H. Inouye tells the stories of the business and professional elites, mid-sized merchants, small business owners, working-class families, menial laborers, and students that made up these communities. The book presents new knowledge about the history of Japanese immigrants in the United States and makes a novel and persuasive argument about the primacy of class and status stratification and relatively weak ethnic cohesion and solidarity in New York City, compared to the pervading understanding of nikkei on the West Coast. While a few prior studies have identified social stratification in other nikkei communities, this book presents the first full exploration of the subject and additionally draws parallels to divisions in German American communities.
Distant Islands is a unique and nuanced historical account of an American ethnic community that reveals the common humanity of pioneering Japanese New Yorkers despite diverse socioeconomic backgrounds and life stories. It will be of interest to general readers, students, and scholars interested in Asian American studies, immigration and ethnic studies, sociology, and history.
Winner- Honorable Mention, 2018 Immigration and Ethnic History Society First Book Award
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Japanese Brazilian Saudades: Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production (Nikkei in the Americas) (Jul 1, 2019)
by Ignacio Lรณpez-Calvo (Author)
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Japanese Brazilian Saudades explores the self-definition of Nikkei discourse in Portuguese-language cultural production by Brazilian authors of Japanese ancestry. Ignacio Lรณpez-Calvo uses books and films by twentieth-century Nikkei authors as case studies to redefine the ideas of Brazilianness and Japaneseness from both a national and a transnational perspective. The result suggests an alternative model of postcoloniality, particularly as it pertains to the post–World War II experience of Nikkei people in Brazil.
Lรณpez-Calvo addresses the complex creation of Japanese Brazilian identities and the history of immigration, showing how the community has used writing as a form of reconciliation and affirmation of their competing identities as Japanese, Brazilian, and Japanese Brazilian. Japanese in Brazil have employed a twofold strategic, rhetorical engineering: the affirmation of ethno-cultural difference on the one hand, and the collective assertion of citizenship and belonging to the Brazilian nation on the other. Lรณpez-Calvo also grapples with the community’s inclusion and exclusion in Brazilian history and literature, using the concept of “epistemicide” to refer to the government’s attempt to impose a Western value system, Brazilian culture, and Portuguese language on the Nikkeijin, while at the same time trying to destroy Japanese language and culture in Brazil by prohibiting Japanese language instruction in schools, Japanese-language publications, and even speaking Japanese in public.
Japanese Brazilian Saudades contributes to the literature criticizing the “cognitive injustice” that fails to acknowledge the value of the global South and non-Western ways of knowing and being in the world. With important implications for both Latin American studies and Nikkei studies, it expands discourses of race, ethnicity, nationality, and communal belonging through art and narrative.
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Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman’s Search for a Home in America (Nikkei in the Americas) (Dec 1, 2020)
by Judy Y. Kawamoto (Author)
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Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman’s Search for a Home in America offers insight into “voluntary evacuation,” a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II, and the lasting effects of cultural trauma. Of the roughly 120,000 people forced from their homes by Executive Order 9066, around 5,000 were able to escape incarceration beforehand by fleeing inland. In a series of beautifully written essays, Judy Kawamoto recounts her family’s flight from their home in Washington to Wyoming, their later moves to Montana and Colorado, and the influence of those experiences on the rest of her life. Hers is a story shared by the many families who lost everything and had to start over in often suspicious and hostile environments.
Kawamoto vividly illustrates the details of her family’s daily life, the discrimination and financial hardship they experienced, and the isolation that came from experiencing the horrors of the 1940s very differently than many other Japanese Americans. Chapters address her personal and often unconscious reactions to her parents’ trauma, as well as her own subsequent travels around much of the world, exploring, learning, enjoying, but also unconsciously acting out a continual search for a home.
Showing how the impacts of traumatic events are collective and generational, Kawamoto draws
interconnections between her family’s displacement and later aspects of her life and juxtaposes the impact of her early experiences and questions of identity, culture, and assimilation. Forced Out will be of great interest to the general reader as well as students and scholars of ethnic studies, Asian American studies, history, education, and mental health.
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Kathleen
5.0 out of 5 stars This Is the Riveting Tale of a Family's Amazing Journey to Be Allowed to Live as the Americans They Are.Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2013
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The House on Lemon Street is a magnetic book. I planned to read a mystery along with the book in case I needed a break from a "history text." I never touched the mystery. I needed to follow the story and the characters that Mr. Rawitsch brings to vivid life in his book.
Rawitsch literally stumbled upon this remarkable story as a young graduate student in Riverside. I cannot believe his luck.
The story is about Jukichi Harada's risky decision to move to California from Aichi-Ken, bringing his wife, Ken, and their baby to a land where they were forbidden citizenship, could not legally own a home and were looked upon as aliens of an inferior race - good only for menial labor.
The enormous losses the family suffers along with their modest but steady gains held my attention and sometimes moved me to tears. I found myself delighted to learn of their victories and successes earned after their years and years of effort.
While Jukichi and Ken are forced to remain citizens of Japan for their entire lives, all of their children became or were born American citizens. One of their children was released from an internment camp to fight for his country in WWII - a soldier in the US Army. One son became a M.D., graduating from U.C. Berkeley, and two sons became dentists. One daughter raised a family and one daughter saved the house on Lemon Street.
But, it is the simple house on Lemon Street in downtown Riverside, CA that is the family's lodestone and gift - it represents the universal story of searching for our place, our own home.
This nice little house in a nice little neighborhood takes care of the Harada family. The fate of the house on Lemon Street is to become a still vibrant Time Capsule that provides physical proof and hard evidence of the story of a single family's persistence and eventual victory on the long, hard road to becoming American.
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Arlene Peters
5.0 out of 5 stars Five StarsReviewed in the United States on February 5, 2016
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Very interesting telling of what happened to this family. An era I wasn't very familiar with.
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Steve J.
5.0 out of 5 stars A Vivid, Moving BookReviewed in the United States on November 12, 2012
While this book is from a university press, I found it to be written in a highly-accessible and engaging style. What unfolds is a moving and intimate account of the hardships and victories that Japanese immigrants experienced on the West Coast during the last century. I already knew a little about the subject, but here the author delivers me into a vivid world where I witness in detail the journey of Jukichi Harada and his family to America at the turn of the century. The Haradas settle in Riverside, Calfornia, open a restaurant and through their hard work are among the first to purchase and own property. I was inspired to read of their effort to survive the Great Depression, then their challenge to a lawsuit seeking to prohibit their ownership of a house in a white neighborhood on Lemon Street. Theirs would become the first Japanese-American test case to the notorious California Alien Land Law of 1913 which prohibited Japanese ownership of property. Ultimately they won their case, but then the aging Haradas and their adult children faced the onset of World War II and their forced removal to the relocation camps. This book poignantly conveys what the Japanese community faced in racism and losses, and also the help they received from non-Japanese allies in mounting small victories, and the ultimate historic importance of one family property--the Harada House in Riverside--which survives to become a national landmark and testament to one family's unswerving perseverance for putting down roots in America.
I highly recommend the book for anyone interested in not only broadening his or her knowledge of the Nikkei community's struggles, but also for anyone wishing to experience a universal struggle for dignity and place.
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Matthew W Nelson
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding scholarship written in an easy to read and engaging formatReviewed in the United States on June 25, 2018
An incredible book from cover to cover. It fully examines the individual impact on the Harada Family of two very dark times in American history: the Japanese Internment after Pearl Harbor and the lesser known, but still distasteful Alien Land Law of 1913.
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