Yasuko Takezawa is a professor at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, as well as an affiliated professor of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Gary Y. Okihiro is a professor of international and public affairs and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University.
Takezawa and Okihiro make a sustained case that Japanese American
studies is best conceptualized in terms of an interactive
"trans-Pacific" dynamic rather than simply a transnational,
diasporic, or even global, framework. Consequently, because of its
innovative ideas, foci, and methodologies, this will become an
invaluable, state-of-the-art collection.--Lane Ryo Hirabayashi,
UCLA Asian American Studies
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies sits on the cutting edge of
research in Japanese American studies. Each section features unique
juxtapositions of diverse perspectives, illuminating issues like
community making and unmaking, gender and racial politics, and
representations and elisions in the scholarly record. The final
section on "positionality" is enlightening, exploring the ways in
which scholars occasionally encounter prejudice in both Academia
and society at large, and are often exposed to eye-opening
experiences when crossing national boundaries. An excellent model
of international joint research.--Masako Iino, past president of
Tsuda College, Tokyo, Japan
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and
Racializations is an intellectual feast, and an enormously useful
and challenging book. Nineteen scholars--roughly half from Japan
and half from the continental United States, Canada, and
Hawai'i--took part in several years of trans-Pacific conversations
and meetings. No scholar of Asian American studies can afford to
ignore Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies. Many scholars of
ethnic studies more broadly will benefit from spending time in the
pages of this book. And scholars in all fields would do well to
imitate the long-conversation method that went into its
making.--Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara
Although this work is primarily targeted at other scholars and
advanced university students within their common transpacific field
of inquiry, its well-grounded and illuminating introduction, 14
essays, and 7 perspectival responses to the book's contents have
much to offer a general readership. . . . This book is an important
milestone in Japanese American studies and its core message for how
the Japanese American community should be studied and represented
in the future needs to be heeded.--Art Hansen "Nichi Bei
Weekly"
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies expands the intellectual
breadth and depth of Japanese American studies because it
deliberately brings together the conversations of scholars in North
American and Japan to dismantle the hierarchy within the
scholarship in the field. . . . [It] is accessible to those at both
undergraduate and graduate levels. For scholars interested in
current issues within Japanese American historiography, this is an
important book, and it will have a long shelf life.--Lily Anne
Welty Tamai "Journal of Asian American Studies, Vol. 20 No. 3
(October 2017)"
This volume, a first in Japanese American studies, involves US and
Japanese scholars discussing positionality, language, insight, and
interpretations within the historical context of early immigration
and Japanese American incarceration and racialization, as well as
initiating conversations on Japanese imperialism and
enthonationalism [sic] and its impact in the Japanese American
community. Essential.-- "Choice (July 2017)"
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