Table of Contents: “…Janow -- China and the Japanese-American alliance / Michel Oksenberg -- Asian regionalism and U.S. interests / Bruce Stokes, C. …”

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; 1 -- Introduction: The Asian American Ghetto; 2 -- "Like a Slum": Ghettos and Ethnic Enclaves, Ghetto and Genre; 3 -- The Japanese American Internment: Master Narratives and Class Critique; 4 -- Chinese Suicide: Political Desire and Queer Exogamy; 5 -- Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Korean American Spies, Shopkeepers, and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots; 6 -- Indian Edison: The Ethnoburbian Paradox and Corrective Ethnography; Conclusion: The Postracial Aesthetic and Class Visibility; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Earthworks, the Depression Economy, and Monument to the Plow -- Modernism, Public Art, and Sculpture as Social Practice in the 1930s -- Reinventing Labor in New York -- Race. Negotiating Japanese American Confinement -- Reimagining Humanity in the 1940s -- Noguchi, Asian America, and Artistic Identity in Postwar New York -- Postscript: Beginnings and Ends at the Venice Biennale -- Appendix A. …”

Table of Contents: “…"Military necessity": the uprooting of Japanese Americans during World War II ; "Grave injustices": the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II ; Good war, Cold War -- Part four: Remaking Asian America in a globalized world. …”

Table of Contents: “…-- Transnational Curriculum and the zProblemy of Chinese American and Japanese American Education in the Early 20th Century -- Asian America and the Focus of this Chapter -- Historical Context for Chinese and Japanese American Curricular Discourse -- Early Chinese American Transnational Curricular Discourse -- Early Japanese American Transnational Curricular Discourse -- Conclusion -- 4. …”

Table of Contents: “…Kolb and Rosemarie Hofstein -- Japanese American elders / Tazuko Shibusawa -- Korean American elders / Su-jeong Park and Suk-Young Kang -- Mexican American elders / Yvette Solis-Longoria -- Puerto Rican elders / Maria Cuadrado -- Conclusion : toward culturally competent social work practice / Patricia J. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Carried with Jizō Bosatsu : mizuko kuyō in Japanese-American communities -- A shadow in the heart : mizuko kuyō in convert American Zen -- We need to free ourselves : adaptations of convert mizuko kuyō -- Branching streams flow on in the dark : rethinking American Buddhism in the light of mizuko kuyō -- Without Biblical revelation : rhetorical appropriations of mizuko kuyō by Christians and other non-Buddhist Americans -- Thank you Getupgrrl for giving me my mizuko : therapeutic appropriations of mizuko kuyō by non-Buddhist Americans -- Where is Buddhism?.…”
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Table of Contents: “…: the process of incarceration in Australia in World War II / Kay Saunders -- Incarcerating Japanese Americans : an atrocity revisited / Roger Daniels -- "A little colony on our own" : Australia's camps in World War II / Yuriko Nagata -- From incarceration to freedom : Japanese Americans and the departure from the concentration camps / Sandra C. …”

Table of Contents: “…From enemy alien to assimilating American: Yoshiko deLeon and the mixed-marriage policy of the Japanese American incarceration -- Anti-sentimental loss: stories of transracial/transnational Asian American -- Adult adoptees in the blogosphere -- Cablinasian dreams, Amerasian realities: transcending race in the twenty-first -- Century and other myths broken by Tiger Woods -- Ambiguous movements and mobile subjectivity: passing in-between -- Autobiography and fiction with Paisley Rekdal and Ruth Ozeki -- Transgressive texts and ambiguous authors: racial ambiguity in Asian American literature -- Coda: ending with origins: my own racial ambiguity.…”
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Table of Contents: “…From enemy alien to assimilating American: Yoshiko deLeon and the mixed-marriage policy of the Japanese American incarceration -- Anti-sentimental loss: stories of transracial/transnational Asian American -- Adult adoptees in the blogosphere -- Cablinasian dreams, Amerasian realities: transcending race in the twenty-first -- Century and other myths broken by Tiger Woods -- Ambiguous movements and mobile subjectivity: passing in-between -- Autobiography and fiction with Paisley Rekdal and Ruth Ozeki -- Transgressive texts and ambiguous authors: racial ambiguity in Asian American literature -- Coda: ending with origins: my own racial ambiguity.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The "unprecedented" internal U.S. migrations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- The economic and environmental displacements during the great migration : precarious citizenship and Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- The environmental displacement of the Dust Bowl : from the Yeoman myth to collective respect and Babb's Whose names are unknown -- The wartime displacement of Japanese American incarceration : disorientation and Otsuka's When the emperor was divine -- The economic displacement of Mexican American migrant labor : disembodied criminality to embodied spirituality and Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus -- Afterword: The mobility poor of Hurricane Katrina : salvaging the family and Ward's Salvage the bones.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- A kid of the city -- A Japanese American in time of war -- Manzanar -- Nine old men and a guy named Walt -- Milt -- Tales from D-wing and all that jazz -- Changes -- Bill and Joe -- Hardworking artists and "Lazy Lucy" -- Taking on responsibility by design ... or otherwise -- Reinventing the TV toon with "Jonny Quest" and "Scooby-Doo" -- International expansion -- Falling into "Charlotte's web" -- Hanna-Barbera branches out -- The busiest place on earth -- A studio in flux and a new role as "ambassador" -- An era ends; a legacy lives on.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The Art Students League of Los Angeles : a brief history / Will South -- The Art Students League of Los Angeles : a Japanese American connection / Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick -- The legacy of the Art Students League : defining this unique art center in pre-war Los Angeles -- Plates -- Selected artist biographies / Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick and Julia Armstrong-Totten -- Art Students League of Los Angeles chronology / Phil Kovinick -- Checklist of Members, Art Students League of Los Angeles / Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, Julia Armstrong-Totten, and Phil Kovinick -- Checklist of exhibition.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Scheduling idealism in Laramie, Wyoming / Beth Loffreda -- Frontier mythology, children's literature, and Japanese American incarceration / John Streamas -- I'm just a lonesome Korean cowgirl; or adoption and national identity / Melody Graulich -- Cultivating Otowi Bridge / Audrey Goodman -- The romance of ranching; or, selling place-based fantasies in and of the West / Nancy Cook.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Cook -- Continuties and discontinuities in Spanish-speaking California / Moses Rischin -- Strangers in the cities: the Chinese on the urban frontier / Stanford M. Lyman -- Japanese-Americans: some costs of group achievement / John Modell -- White racism and Black response in California history / Velesia Jenkins -- Conflict in the fields: Mexican workers in California agri-business / Charles Wollenberg -- Afro-Americans and Mexican-Americans: the politics of coalition / Mervyn M. …”

Table of Contents: “…Martin Seibert -- Remembering a Japanese-American concentration camp at Manzanar national historic site / Janice L. …”

Table of Contents: “…Everybody lived here: multiculturalism & racially restrictive covenants -- Our friends were gone: Japanese American internment -- Largest Jewish community west of Chicago & White Flight -- The spirit in Boyle Heights cannot be broken by California planners: East L.A. interchange -- McCarthyism & a more radical neighborhood -- Edward R. …”

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