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Book Review

Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generations, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924–49. By David K. Yoo. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. xiii + 244 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $42.50, cloth; $17.95, paper.)

     What did it mean to live as a young Japanese American in California from the 1920s through World War II? This is the question that David Yoo seeks to examine in his carefully researched and thoughtful social history. Of particular concern to him is the identity information of this racial-ethnic group and its process of becoming American (p. ix). How did the Nisei, American citizens by birth, seek their cultural citizenship, that is, a place of respect within a racially hostile society? . . .

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