Book Talk with Jane Yamashiro for ‘Redefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland’

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Redefining Japaneseness

Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland

Book Talk with author

Dr. Jane H. Yamashiro

Thursday, February 23rd, 2017
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
UCLA Powell Library
East Rotunda
Redefining Japaneseness chronicles how Japanese American migrants to Japan experience both racial inclusion and cultural dislocation while negotiating between the categories of Japanese and “foreigner.” Drawing from extensive observations and interviews with Japanese Americans who are geographically, culturally, and linguistically diverse, Jane H. Yamashiro reveals wide variations in how Japanese Americans perceive both Japaneseness and Americanness. Her findings have major implications for both Asian American studies and scholarship on transnational migration and global diasporic identity.
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Dr. Jane H. Yamashiro has been researching Japanese American experiences in Tokyo while also doing research on projects focused on Okinawan Americans and the US-Japan Council. She is a sociologist whose comparative and transnational work on race and ethnicity, culture, globalization, migration, diaspora, and identity sits at the intersection of Asian American and Asian Studies. Her academic research has been published in Ethnic and Racial Studies; AAPI Nexus: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Policy, Practice and Community; Sociology Compass; Geoforum; CR: The New Centennial Review; and Migrations and Identities. She holds a B.A. from the University of California at San Diego and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.
Books will be available for purchase and light refreshments will be served.

This event is sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA Library.
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