Before Internment: Essays in Prewar Japanese American History

This is a collection of the last essays by Yuji Ichioka, the foremost authority on Japanese-American history, who passed away two years ago. The essays focus on Japanese Americans during the interwar years and explore issues such as the nisei (American-born generation) relationship toward Japan, Japanese-American attitudes toward Japan's prewar expansionism in Asia, and the meaning of loyalty in a racist society--all controversial but central issues in Japanese-American history.

Ichioka draws from original sources in Japanese and English to offer an unrivaled picture of Japanese Americans in these years. Also included in this volume are an introductory essay by editor Eiichiro Azuma that places Ichioka's work in Japanese-American historiography, and a postscript by editor Chang reflecting on Ichioka's life-work.

Author: Yuji Ichioka
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 03/09/2006
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.66w x 1.09d
ISBN: 9780804751476

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 76

About the Author
The late Yuji Ichioka was the founding father of the scholarly study of Japanese-American history. His book on the immigrant generation in America, The Issei: The World of the First-Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885-1924 (1988), is considered a classic. He invented the term Asian American, and trained many of the scholars now teaching Asian American history at colleges and universities.