Japanese Americans and Cultural Continuity: Maintaining Language through Heritage

by Toyotomi Morimoto

Overview

Although the United States is a nation of immigrants, few Americans are familiar with the ethnic community mother-tongue schools that nurtured and maintained the immigrants' language and culture. This book records the history of the schools of Americans of Japanese ancestry, focusing on the efforts of the Japanese community in California to maintain their linguistic and cultural heritage. The main focus of the book is on the period from the early 20th century to World War II, but it also surveys conditions during the war and in the postwar era up to the present. The coverage examines the difficulties experienced by the ancestors of the model minority, from the San Francisco Japanese school-children segregation incident in the early part of this century to private school control laws in the 1920s. The book also surveys the lives of Japanese Americans as college students in Japan in the 1930s, as well as looks at Japanese communities in Hawaii and Brazil.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138992795
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/02/2016
Series:	Studies in the History of Education
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Toyotomi Morimoto

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Cherishing Our Heritage; Chapter 2 Early Settlers; Chapter 3 Against the Wind; Chapter 4 Portent of War; Chapter 5 The Bridge of Understanding over the Pacific; Chapter 6 Possibilities and Limitations; Chapter 7 Language and Heritage Maintenance Efforts During and After World War II; Chapter 8 Epilogue;