Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans & Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century

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Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest, by Louis Fiset and Gail M. Nomura2. Writing Racial Barriers into Law: Upholding B.C.'s Denial of the Vote to Its Japanese Canadian Citizens, Homma v. Cunningham, 1902, by Andrea Geiger-Adams3. Becoming Local Japanese: Issei Adaptive Strategies on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1906-1923, by Gail M. Nomura4. Yasutaro Yamaga: Fraser Valley Berry Farmer, Community Leader, and Strategist, by Michiko Midge Ayukawa5. Americanization vs. Japanese Cultural Maintenance: Analyzing Seattle's Nihongo Tokuhon, 1920, by Noriko Asato6. Nail That Sticks Up Gets Hit: The Architecture of Japanese American Identity in the Urban Environment, 1885-1942, Gail Lee Dubrow7. Four Hirabayashi Cousins: A Question of Identity, by James A. Hirabayashi8. The Minidoka Draft Resisters in a Federal Kangaroo Court, by Eric L. Muller9. Words Do Matter: A Note on Inappropriate Terminology and the Incarceration of the Japanese Americans, by Roger Daniels10. In the Matter of Iwao Matsushita: A Government Decision to Intern a Seattle Japanese Enemy Alien in World War II, by Louis Fiset11. The Free Zone Nikkei: Japanese Americans in Idaho and Eastern Oregon in World War II, by Robert C. Sims12. Lessons in Citizenship, 1945-1949: The Delayed Return of the Japanese to Canada's Pacific Coast, by Patricia E. Roy13. Peculiar Odyssey: Newsman Jimmie Omura's Removal from and Regeneration within Nikkei Society, History, and Memory, by Arthur A. Hansen14. Reclaiming and Reinventing Powell Street: Reconstruction of the Japanese Canadian Community in Post-World War II Vancouver, by Masumi IzumiContributorsIndex