Japanese American millennials : rethinking generation, community, and diversity / edited by Michael Omi, Dana Y. Nakano, and Jeffrey Yamashita.

Contributor Omi, Michael, editor.

ImprintPhiladelphia : Temple University Press, 2019.

Descriptionviii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Note:"We've got team spirit!": ethnic community building and Japanese American youth basketball leagues / Christina B. Chin -- Millennial understandings of nikkei seishin in San Jose Japantown / Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani -- To be yonsei in Southern California: persistent community as postsuburban minority culture of mobility / Dana Y. Nakano -- Redefining "camp" in Protestant Japanese America / Dean Ryuta Adachi -- Religious nones? increasing unaffiliated and Christian religiosity among Japanese American millennials / Brett J. Esaki -- "I am trailblazing": young adult Japanese American Shin Buddhists negotiating complex identities / Chenxing Han -- Of transgression: Zainichi Korean immigrants' search for home(s) and belonging / Kyung Hee Ha -- Millennial shin-isei identity politics in Los Angeles / Aki Yamada -- Mixed race Japanese American millennials: millennials or Japanese Americans? / Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain -- The new second generation: biculturalism and transnational identities among Japanese-American shin-nisei / Takeyuki Tsuda -- Techie, gender queer, and lesbian: interview with shin-nisei Mioi Hanaoka / Amy Sueyoshi -- Japanese American millennials in contemporary Japan / Jane H. Yamashiro -- Questioning the "world": millennial generation Okinawan American identity matters / Wesley Iwao Ueunten -- Uniting Hapas: the global communities of mixed race nikkei on YouTube / Loeri Kido Lopez.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:"Whereas most scholarship on Japanese Americans looks at historical case studies or the 1.5 generation assimilating, this pioneering anthology, Japanese American Millennials, captures the experiences, perspectives, and aspirations of Asian Americans born between 1980 and 2000. The editors and contributors present multiple perspectives on who Japanese Americans are, how they think about notions of community and culture, and how they engage and negotiate multiple social identities. The essays by scholars both in the United States and Japan draw upon the Japanese American millennial experience to examine how they find self-expression in Youth Basketball Leagues or Christian youth camps as well as how they grapple with being mixed-race, bicultural, or queer. Featuring compelling interviews and observations, Japanese American Millennials dislodges the dominant generational framework to address absences in the current literature and suggests how we might alternatively study Japanese Americans as a whole." --Provided by publisher.

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