Americanization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity: THE NISEI GENERATION IN HAWAII (Asian American Experience)

Eileen Tamura examines the forms that U.S. hysteria over "Americanization" took after World War I in Hawaii,l where the children of Japanses immigrants - the Nisei - were targets of widespread discrimination. She offers a wealth or original source matieral, using personal accounts and statistical data to create an essential resource for students of American ethnic history and U.S. race and class relations.