Japanese Pride, American Prejudice: Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Law

by Izumi Hirobe

Adding an important new dimension to the history of U.S.-Japan relations, this book reveals that an unofficial movement to promote good feeling between the United States and Japan in the 1920s and 1930s only narrowly failed to achieve its goal: to modify the so-called anti-Japanese exclusion clause of the 1924 U.S. immigration law.

It is well known that this clause caused great indignation among the Japanese, and scholars have long regarded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804738130
• ISBN13: 9780804738132
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"