Search Results for Japanese American

... This chapter examines the interconnected history of Japanese, Japanese American, and African American communities in Southern California. Doing so illustrates the dialectic between international relations and local communities, demonstrates how immigration from Asia played a fundamental role...

... in the name of protection and care. Paralleling and juxtaposing the use of evacuation to name the systems and practices of expelling Jews from Nazi Germany and occupied Europe, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans in the United States, the chapter wields Ann Laura Stoler’s concept of aphasia. Aphasia...