Herança Nikkei
Esta série republica artigos selecionados do Nikkei Heritage , o jornal trimestral da National Japanese American Historical Society em São Francisco, CA. As questões fornecem análises oportunas e insights sobre as muitas facetas da experiência nipo-americana. A NJAHS é uma organização participante do Discover Nikkei desde dezembro de 2004.
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Stories from this series
Intermarriages and Hapas: An Overview - Part 2
12 de Maio de 2007 • George Kitahara Kich , Rebecca Chiyoko King , Larry Hajime Shinagawa , Shizue Seigel
>> Part 1 Current Japanese American AttitudesIntermarriage has been a major, and controversial, topic of discussion within the Japanese American community over the years. The Pacific Citizen has consistently afforded a forum for some of this discussion (particularly the Holiday Issue, December 20-27, 1985). As more and more marriages across culture and race occurred, unresolved questions, opinions and prejudices surfaced. For many years, people who were of mixed race were seen as a loss to the community. Some people went …
Intermarriages and Hapas: An Overview - Part 1
11 de Maio de 2007 • George Kitahara Kich , Rebecca Chiyoko King , Larry Hajime Shinagawa , Shizue Seigel
To be biracial and Japanese American means having many different labels from which to choose. For this historical overview, we will use “Hapa”, a term popularized by the Hapa Issues Forum, to mean people who have an Asian/Asian Pacific Islander parent and a parent of any other race. Our focus here is on those with a Japanese or a Japanese American parent. There is no single Hapa experience. Over the decades, Hapas have had widely different experiences based on individual …
A Meditation on Nikkei Style
27 de Dezembro de 2006 • Sheridan Tatsuno
How do we define "the way of the Nikkei"? As Japanese Americans assimilate into the wider society through intermarriage and migration, many community leaders have begun to question what constitutes the Nikkei identity and whether our community is disappearing due to lack of new Japanese immigration. Although I understand their concerns, I believe their worries are misplaced for several reasons. Nikkei identity is not limited to people with two Nikkei parents. Today, up to 90 percent of the Yonsei and …
Still Swingin'
27 de Dezembro de 2006 • George Yoshida
I had no misgivings about my 65th birthday. But when the day finally arrived, an overpowering feeling gripped me. A voice echoed and re-echoed: "Senior citizen, senior citizen, old, old, retire, retire!" Clearly, I do not feel as if I were a member of the ever-expanding population of the elderly. I still get my kicks "getting down" to funky Motown tunes (Marvin Gaye's "Heard It On The Grapevine" is still a favorite). Forget "In The Mood." Got rid of my …
Threads
27 de Dezembro de 2006 • Nina Kahori Fallenbaum
A quiet revolution is underway, led by young Japanese-American visionaries who are redefining urban fashion on their terms. Their mediums are varied, and their approaches multi-hued, but collectively they represent a new brand of creativity and entrepreneurship that would make their Issei ancestors proud. They are Nikkei fashion designers who have chosen the medium of textile architecture to express themselves and their dreams. You might not know that the Asian American T-shirt underground was launched from a single-car garage in …
Snowflakes in a Valley of Fire
4 de Maio de 2006 • Fredrick Cloyd
My mother told me one day that fear was useless in her life. Her statements confront what many of us believe peace should be—obedience, disciplining ourselves to be docile, good citizens, with fear not far behind our actions. Fear of not being seen as an American, fear of being interned again at the drop of a hat, fear of doing ‘wrong’ in the eyes of the US government or Japan—fear has been a constant presence for many Japanese Americans. My …