| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America. By Eiichiro Azuma. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiv, 306 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-19-515940-3. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-19-515941-1.)

Astonishing in its range of historical detail and contemporary theory, Eiichiro Azuma's book breaks new ground in the familiar tale of the Japanese American struggle to become American. He directly challenges the still-dominant domestic framework of American immigration history, which prevails even when transnational links are considered. In its place, he carefully stakes out an alternative, binational perspective in which the rivalry of the two racialized nationalisms of pre–World War II Japan and the United States created the international context of Japanese immigration.

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