| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4

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Book Review

Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934–1990. By Lon Kurashige. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xxii + 274 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $18.95, paper.)

Thoughtfully conceptualized and well documented, Lon Kurashige's book is a magnificent contribution to Asian American studies and to our understanding of race relations in twentieth-century America. It is centered around the Nisei Week festival, a new tradition invented by native-born Japanese Americans in Southern California in collaboration with their immigrant parents during the 1930s. Reminiscent of earlier seminal studies of immigrant festivals such as Robert Anthony Orsi's The Madonna of 115 Street (New Haven, 1985), Japanese American Celebration and Conflict is the first comprehensive study of Nisei Week that seeks to "understand its historical significance for Japanese Americans and American immigration, ethnicity, and race relations" (p. 9).

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