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Distant islands : the Japanese American community in New York City, 1876-1930s / by Daniel H. Inouye.

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"The turn of the century New York Japanese American community was a composite of several micro communities divided along status, class, geographic, and religious lines. Using primary sources Inouye tells the stories of the professional elites, small business owners, working-class, laborers, and...

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Online Access: Full Text (via University Press of Colorado)
Main Author: Inouye, Daniel H. (Author)
Corporate Author: University Press of Colorado
Other title:University Press of Colorado e-book collection.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2018]
Series:George and Sakaye Aratani Nikkei in the Americas series.
Subjects:
Japanese Americans > New York (State) > New York > History.
Japanese Americans > Economic conditions.
Japanese Americans > Social conditions.
Japanese Americans > Religion.
New York (N.Y.) > Emigration and immigration > History.
Japan > Emigration and immigration > History.
Emigration and immigration.
Japanese Americans.
Japan.
New York (State) > New York.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The Rising Sun and the Oceanic group
  • A divided and scattered people : the dominant tier, 1885/1940
  • A divided and scattered people : the in-between second tier
  • A divided and scattered people : spatial separation and lower tiers
  • The floating student sphere
  • "Community" role of ethnic-based organizations
  • Social adaptation of Japanese Buddhism
  • The unifying ethnic and cultural force of issei Protestant churches.

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