Between Two Empires by Eiichiro Azuma
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 held 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.
Firmly grounded in empirical evidence and theoretically sophisticated, Between Two Empires tells the complex story of Japanese immigration into the United States within the twin contexts of Japanese and US. empire-building and the development of transnational identities among the immigrants themselves. Azuma's prose is fluid; his analysis is supple, nuanced, and elegant. This is an exemplary work of enduring significance. * Sucheng Chan, University of California, Santa Barbara *
Eiichiro Azuma is an Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195159417 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195159411 |
| Title | Between Two Empires |
| Author | Eiichiro Azuma |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2005-04-07 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Winner of the 2004-2005 Hiroshi Shumizu Award of the Japanese Association for American Studies. |
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