Why do some groups retain their ethnicity as they become assimilated into mainstream American life while others do not? This study employs both historical sourc

Introduction: Ethnic heritage across the generations: racialization, transnationalism, and homeland -- History and the second generation -- The prewar Nisei: Am

Since 1855, nearly half a million Japanese immigrants have settled in the United States, and today more than twice that number claim Japanese ancestry. While th

A unique interpretation of how wartime internment and the movement for redress affected Japanese Americans.

Among Japanese Americans ethnicity has persisted into the third and fourth generations. It is not a stage through which they are passing on their way to assimil