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Title Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest : Japanese Americans & Japanese Canadians in the twentieth century / edited by Louis Fiset and Gail M. Nomura.

Imprint Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, 2005.
Edition 1st ed.
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 2nd FL Humanities Library Books  F855.2.J3 N55 2005    Available
Collation xii, 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
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Series The Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography ; 11
Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography ; 11.
Note Papers from a conference held at the University of Washington from May 4 to 6, 2000.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Nikkei in the Pacific northwest / Luis Piset and Gail M. Nomura -- Writing racial barriers into law: upholding B.C.'s denial of the vote to its Japanese Canadian citizens, Homma v. Cunningham, 1902 / Andrea Geiger-Adams -- Becoming "local" Japanese: Issei adaptive strategies on the Yakama Indian reservation / Gail M. Nomura -- Yasutaro Yamaga: Fraser Valley berry farmer, community leader, and strategist / Michiko Midge Ayukawa -- Americanization vs. Japanese cultural maintenance: analyzing Seattle's Nihongo Tokuhon, 1920 / Noriko Asato -- "The nail that sticks up gets hit": the architecture of Japanese American identity in the urban environment, 1885-1942 / Gail Lee Durbow -- Four Hirabayashi cousins: a question of identity / James A. Hirabayashi -- The Minidoka draft resisters in a federal kangaroo court / Eric L. Muller -- Words do matter: a note on inappropriate terminology and the incarceration of the Japanese Americans / Roger Daniels -- In the matter of Iwao Matsushita: a government decision to intern a Seattle Japanese enemy alien in World War II / Louis Fiset -- The "free zone" Nikkei: Japanese Americans in Idaho and eastern Oregon in World War II / Robert C. Sims -- Lessons in citizenship, 1945-1949: the delayed return of the Japanese to Canada's Pacific coast / Patricia E. Roy -- Peculiar odyssey: newsman Jimmie Omura's removal from and regeneration within Nikkei society, history, and memory / Arthur A. Hansen -- Reclaiming and reinventing "Powell Street": reconstruction of the Japanese-Canadian community in post-World War II Vancouver.
Subject Japanese Americans -- Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Japanese -- British Columbia -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Japanese Americans -- Northwest, Pacific -- Ethnic identity -- Congresses.
Japanese -- British Columbia -- Ethnic identity -- Congresses.
Immigrants -- Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Regionalism -- Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Northwest, Pacific -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses.
Alt Author Fiset, Louis.
Nomura, Gail M.
ISBN 0295984619 (pbk. : alk. paper)