Japanese American Ethnicity The Persistence of Community

Name: Japanese American Ethnicity The Persistence of Community
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ISBN: 9780295970530

ISBN-10: 0295970537

ISBN-13: 9780295970530

Edition: 1991

Authors: Stephen S. Fugita, David J. O'Brien

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Why do some groups retain their ethnicity as they become assimilated into mainstream American life while others do not? This study employs both historical sources and contemporary survey data to explain the seeming paradox of why Japanese Americans have maintained high levels of ethnic community involvement while becoming structurally assimilated. Most traditional approaches to the study of ethnicity in the United States are based on the European immigrant experience and conclude that a zero-sum relationship exists between assimilation and retention of ethnicity: community solidarity weakens as structural assimilation grows stronger. Japanese Americans, however, like American Jews, do not…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 218
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 3
Approaches to the Study of the Persistence of Ethnicity	p. 14
The Structure of Social Relationships among Japanese Americans	p. 29
The Petit Bourgeois Economic Accommodation	p. 47
The California Survey	p. 63
Early Socialization Experiences of Nisei and Sansei	p. 76
Friendship and Voluntary Association Membership in Ethnic and Nonethnic Communities	p. 95
Economic Activities and Networks	p. 118
Intermarriage	p. 130
Political Attitudes and Participation	p. 141
Persistence and Change in Perceived Social Boundaries	p. 165
The Japanese American Experience and Understanding Ethnicity in the Modern World	p. 178
References	p. 187
Index	p. 205
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