Americanization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity: The Nisei Generation in Hawaii

by Eileen H. Tamura

Book Overview

Wartime hysteria over "foreign" ways fueled a movement for Americanization that swept the United States during and after World War I. Eileen H. Tamura examines the forms that hysteria took in Hawai'i, where the Nisei (children of Japanese immigrants) were targets of widespread discrimination.

Tamura analyzes Hawaii's organized effort to force the Nisei to adopt "American" ways, discussing it within the larger phenomenon of Nisei acculturation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252063589
• ISBN13: 9780252063589
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"