Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America

by Eiichiro Azuma

Book Overview

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 help 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195159411
• ISBN13: 9780195159417
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"