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

195 88 869KB Read more

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

121 99 7MB Read more

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

117 8 19MB Read more

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

122 99 20MB Read more

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

111 53 5MB Read more

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

415 21 4MB Read more

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

121 10 40MB Read more

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

106 81 9MB Read more

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

213 75 1MB Read more

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

133 66 4MB Read more