| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

David K. Yoo. Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924–49. Foreword by Roger Daniels. (The Asian American Experience.) Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 2000. Pp. xiii, 244. Cloth $42.50, paper $17.95.

Between 1920 and the signing of Executive Order 9066, the Japanese-American community experienced a generational transformation as the percentage of the American born rose from slightly more than twenty-five percent to over sixty percent. The coming of age of the Nisei generation and the ways that it sought to negotiate a distinctive ethnic identity constitute the focus of David K. Yoo's insightful and engaging monograph. He is intent on viewing the second generation not simply as victims of wartime xenophobia but as agents seeking with whatever resources they had at their disposal to negotiate their place within American society. Yoo views the Nisei negotiation of identity as in many respects parallel to that of the children of other immigrants. However, he is keen to claim that racial groups need to be distinguished from ethnic groups, and in steering clear of what he somewhat oddly refers to as the "cult of ethnicity" (p. 9), he embraces Michael Omi and Howard Winant's "racial formation" theory. . . .

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