Becoming Nisei: Japanese American Urban Lives in Prewar Tacoma

by Lisa M Hoffman, Mary L Hanneman, Lisa M. Hoffman, et al.

Book Overview

A vital account of everyday Nisei life and identity formation in an early twentieth-century community

Tacoma's vibrant Nihonmachi of the 1920s and '30s was home to a significant number of first generation Japanese immigrants and their second generation American children, and these families formed tight-knit bonds despite their diverse religious, prefectural, and economic backgrounds. As the city's Nisei grew up attending the secular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295748214
• ISBN13: 9780295748214
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher