| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Lon Kurashige. Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934–1990. (American Crossroads.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2002. Pp. xxii, 274. Cloth $45.00, paper $18.95.

In this book, Lon Kurashige examines the process by which Japanese immigrants and their descendants identified themselves as members of an ethnic group and as individuals within that group. Because outside forces influenced the way they saw and represented themselves, their views of what it meant to be ethnic Japanese changed over time and within different historical contexts. 1

The author provides few details of the festival called Nisei Week. Instead he uses it as a vehicle with which to explore the ways in which ethnic leaders constructed and reconstructed their ethnic identity in the context of shifting political, economic, and social forces impinging on the Japanese-American community of Los Angeles. In the 1930s, they emphasized the ideal of themselves as bicultural bridges of understanding between the United States and Japan. In the 1940s, they stressed their loyalty to the United States. In the aftermath of World War II and with the opening of job opportunities in sectors previously closed to them, they rejected the ethnic enclave and moved toward racial integration. By the 1970s, however, many were questioning their accommodation to Western standards. . . .

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