Creating the Nisei Market: Race and Citizenship in Hawaii's Japanese American Consumer Culture 9780824860431

Race, Nation, and Refuge: The Rhetoric of Race in Asian American Citizenship Cases 1438466617, 9781438466613

 Explores the role of rhetoric and the racial classification of Asian American immigrants in the early twentieth century

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Race and Urban Space in Contemporary American Culture 9781474469760

This innovative book looks at representations of ethnic and racial identities in relation to the development of urban cu

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Power and Culture: The Japanese–American War, 1941–1945 9780674038974

Power and Culture challenges existing assumptions about the war in the Pacific. By focusing on the interplay between cul

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Playing with History: American Identities and Children’s Consumer Culture 9781978822115

Since the advent of the American toy industry, children’s cultural products have attempted to teach and sell ideas of Am

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Kids Rule!: Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship 9780822390299

Sarah Banet-Weiser explores how the cable network Nickelodeon combines an appeal to kids formidable purchasing power wit

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Italian Women's Experiences with American Consumer Culture, 1945–1975: The Italian Mrs. Consumer 9783030478247, 9783030478254

This book analyzes the spread of American female consumer culture to Italy and its influence on Italian women in the pos

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Creating the Suburban School Advantage: Race, Localism, and Inequality in an American Metropolis 9781501748417

The stubborn perception that suburban schools are superior, based on test scores and budgets, has persisted into the twe

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Whitewashing Britain: Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era 9781501729331

Kathleen Paul challenges the usual explanation for the racism of post-war British policy. According to standard historio

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Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora 9780367194208, 9780292756311

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Airborne Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways 9780822393368

An account of Pan Ams Nisei stewardess program (1955–1972), through which the airline hired Japanese American (and later

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