Japanese American Ethnicity The Persistence of Community

Name: Japanese American Ethnicity The Persistence of Community
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ISBN: 9780295973760

ISBN-10: 0295973765

ISBN-13: 9780295973760

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
Publication date: 10/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Approaches to the Study of the Persistence of Ethnicity



the Structure of Social Relationships Among Japanese Americans



the Petit Bourgeois Economic Accommodation



the California Survey



Early Socialization Experiences of Nisei and Sansei



Friendship and Voluntary Association Membership in Ethnic and Nonethnic Communities



Economic Activities and Networks



Intermarriage



Political Attitudes and Participation



Persistence and Change in Perceived Social Boundaries



the Japanese American Experience and Understanding Ethnicity in the Modern World


References


Index