Valerie J Matsumoto

City Girls

The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the ethnocultural youth organizations formed by teenage Nisei girls in the greater Los Angeles area and the endurance of this world of female friendship and comradery from the Jazz Age through internment through the postwar period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780190655204
• ISBN-10: 0190655208
• Artikelnr.: 47863106

Autorenporträt

Valerie J. Matsumoto is Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982 and a co-editor of Over the Edge: Remapping the American West.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Social World of the Urban Nisei
2. Shaping Japanese American Culture
3. Sounding the Dawn Bell: Developing Nisei Voices
4. Nisei Women's Roles in Family and Community during World War II
5. Reweaving the Web of Community in Postwar Southern California, 1945-1950
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index